L42A1 Plastic bottle / lens cleaning brush

[Gil Boyd]

Only tongue on cheek response mate, I wish I had a few to sell. The price is ridiculous on that other site and elsewhere, and as I said in another thread, no sensible comparison to the 4T or the Enforcer bits or indeed the price of the rifles.
Another unexplained myth!!
Mind you next time I'm in China might get them to russle up a few sample bottles, now where did I put that old MOD bog chain to attach to them, no one will ever notice

[CINDERS]

Sniper lense brush as per pics and clear pull through container for sale on flea bay seperate items I think the container is a $351.00AU

[CINDERS]

Here's what the lense brush went for on flea bay auction finished last night

L42A1 LEE ENFIELD SNIPER LENS BRUSH CES GBP 266.00 AU $469.41
16 bids

[Gil Boyd]

And the brush bottle over £500 absolutely ridiculous.................I am doing a nice line in a better product called a urine sample bottle fitted with a **** house chain any takers??:

[Roger Payne]

I am lucky enough to have a couple of the correct containers, but I used to put universal containers* into transit chests of the rifles I sold, rather than leaving a space. They lack the chain but are otherwise much the same & are far more readily available.

*piXXle pots, in plain English.

[PrinzEugen]

While I’m something of a collector, and all for complete-ism (L42 CES etc), for me, the object itself has to have some kind of ‘worth’ or interest to justify lashing out on. In this case, for me, it is a brush, and as such is as interesting as every other brush in the world.

[bigduke6]

While I’m something of a collector, and all for complete-ism (L42 CES etc), for me, the object itself has to have some kind of ‘worth’ or interest to justify lashing out on. In this case, for me, it is a brush, and as such is as interesting as every other brush in the world.

But in this case not just the brush, the container too, I,m like you Prinz, (but more of a hoarder than collector), for the collector to fill that gap then good for them, but myself I cant justify that kind of cost for a plastic bottle and half a paint brush...

[chosenman]

Unfortunately as with all things precious, when demand outstrips supply the price goes up! I've seen around 4 of these bottles sell on that auction site for around £500 - £700 which is where the price seems to have settled and nothing will drive that down unless a massive cache of originals flood the market. In the absence of the "massive cache" people will want and pay for authentic originals. I think there are three main camps people fall in. A) Achieving the ownership of a special rifle is the goal. B) Owning the rifle and cobbling together any ancillary that will do, fake or genuine. C) Owning a special rifle and doing it justice by completing it with nothing else than the best original ancillaries you can find.

I fall in to category C and I wouldn't sleep at night knowing I had a **** sample bottle in my L42 chest bluffing a lens brush bottle, repop lens covers on my 32 scope or an SLR pull through in my No4 T cleaning kit. To some people these things matter, a lot.

[Peter Laidler]

And something else tp ponder too. They're probably getting less and less every day as sure as god made little green apples, there'll be someone who drops the lid down on the chest, the little bottle won't be in the recess fully or properly and it'll get smashed between the lid and the butt. Just mark my words............

And whether we like it or not, and many don't, the auction room is the place that dictates the price. Not the value - or the worth, but the price.

[bigduke6]

I wouldn't sleep at night knowing I had a **** sample bottle in my L42 chest

You don't have to use a used one !!