Origins of that L42A1 Plastic Lens Brush Bottle

[Peter Laidler]

Initially reading about your brush trimming escapade got me going all of a dither there to start with.........

Seeing that odd yellow one among some perfect ones leads me to think that someones had the labels reproduced to add some 'authenticity' to them. I say that because when I look through the poly bag here, at least three don't have labels on them. However, one of the label-less bottles does have a tie-on AFG-8061 label (that's the Ordnance Stores VAOS label). The norm, label/script wise was as shown in your previous photos and the dot-matrix printing (photo 7 above)

The trouble with these bottles is like the IWS brackets (and to a lesser extent, No42/53 telescopes). At some point it becomes viable to have them made. As soon as they are available and pretty-well perfected, the real ones sort of loose their value. Like No42/53 scopes. A bit of a shortage, albeit just spare parts to me, but I have a feeling in my bones that a lot will soon swamp the market. If I was a betting man I wouldn't be paying daylight robbery prices for them now......