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    The famous and rare L42A1 plastic bottle

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    LEE ENFIELD SNIPER L42A1 CONTAINER FOR LENS BRUSH | eBay
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    Didn't the last one on eBay UKicon make about £1000 and a few days later the brush went on auction and made about £800 ?
    Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...

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    That would make the 2 items in $Aud $3,600 think I can find a better things to spend nearly $4K on probably a set of Akropovic slip ons for my V4S Ducati!

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    Christ, i've a dozen of them in my fishing kit as containers for floats.

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    I seem to remember a few years back when a seller on that site found a few in his mothers or grandmothers bead stash. She had been using them to store various beads she used in making necklaces. He almost threw them out but decided to do some digging to see what they were. He may have asked here about them. My memory eludes me on the particulars. Seems like he had maybe half a dozen. Oh to find that type of item stashed away for so many years.

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    Crikey,
    Don't tell Eddie in Taiwan, otherwise we will be swamped with the little bottles and brushes all ORIGINAL SAS !!!!.
    Shame they aren't NHS sample bottles, we'd be inundated with them then
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    $298 GBP + $25 GBP postage $323 GBP for your troubles.

    Alan the one in the UKicon must have been the rarer camo'ed up plastic bottle?

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