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Offline steg49

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Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« on: May 25, 2024, 04:07:21 AM »
I just found this and was wonder who made it.  thanks for your help.  steg49








Offline Frozen Run

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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2024, 09:46:46 PM »
I suspect, and I am no expert on the subject so I hope someone here proves me wrong, that it is a shop made one-off. That someone took a brass trinket of some sort and modified it into a primer by soldering on 2 pipes and a modern 20th century dispenser. The pipes are to run a cord through so you can wear the primer around your neck, a practice some people frowned upon but was popular decades ago I heard? Whatever it turns out to be, it's pretty cool and I'd be happy to own it.

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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2024, 03:15:38 AM »
Unusual, quirky, and very neat.

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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2024, 09:52:27 PM »
It appears to me to be made from a brass lawman's badge.  Interesting. 

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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2024, 10:00:58 PM »
I agree looks home made but to me it looks more of a oil bottle than a priming flask
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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2024, 07:58:16 PM »
Partial touch mark on the back? Doesn’t look old enough to be actually from the flint era but that’s a guess too. Looks martial to me for some reason.
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Re: Unusual priming flask anyone seen one like this?
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2024, 03:33:27 PM »
Thanks for the input.  I tried to read the mark on the back but it was only partly there so I thought it might have been a commercial product from the 1970's.  Spout is a modern type with spring and throughs 3 gr. of powder.  It is interesting!  steg49