Beautiful Lee-Speed.
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Beautiful Lee-Speed.
Just took a pic of the tag.
It is made of aluminum and the letters are stamped in.It looks old as the aluminum is starting to corrode and has some pitting
The string is also the old bass rope type, not modern string.It just looks old.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...P1010069-1.jpg
The tag looks like a museum tag. Is it possible the rifle came from one of the regimental museums? Ours moved and I saw the original weapons lockup decades back under a stairwell. They had lots of stuff they had no intention of displaying and could still sell at the time.
I would also wonder if it may be some sort of inventory/museum tag. I don't know a lot about it, but I think aluminium was still quite an expensive metal in 1900, as a viable smelting process for producing it had only been developed about ten years before. IIRC the First World War accelerated its use greatly. The letter stamps also lack serifs which tends to be a relatively modern phenomenon.
I was going to say the same; aluminium was a fairly new and exotic metal at the time, and this probably dates to much later.
Typical modern fonts of the kind you can buy at Princess Auto. And I'd say the oxidization happened before the stamping.Quote:
Originally Posted by superbee
Museum tags display accession numbers and similar information. Arcane references to a particular battle do not fit with any known method of artifact categorization or recording to my knowledge.
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