a cleaning funnel, in leather!
SMLE Lee Enfield Barrel Cleaning Funnel Unissued | eBay
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a cleaning funnel, in leather!
SMLE Lee Enfield Barrel Cleaning Funnel Unissued | eBay
That is the first time that I have seen a leather one. Those we had at school were tin plate.
The spout looks a bit big for a .303 chamber; wonder if there is a bit missing, or if its for a larger calibre weapon?
It looks a lot like a leather water funnel for filling the barrel jacket of a .303 Vickers machine gun.
Boris is rigtht. We had a couple of these at Warminster for our Vickers. They were old ande crusty/hard. I asked my local saddler here to fix them and she dunked them in her lanolin bath overnight and they were supple by the morning. Anyway, you'd need the cranked adaptor to use one on the rifle or you'd have hot water everywhere
Leather funnels!
I know Spike Milligan was a Gunner, but I didn't realize that he moonlighted in Ordnance.
("Milligan Preserved" reference.)