Shell Extractor
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- Date
- 1900 – 1910
- Material
- metal, steel; fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0023
- Description
- A machined steel implement, in the shape of a cartridge, with a groove around the base and a loose ball bearing in a slot at the tip. The ball bearing rolls against a knob at the end of the extractor to grasp a broken shell fragment when inserted into a rifle and then withdrawn. The extractor is …
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- Title
- Shell Extractor
- Date
- 1900 – 1910
- Material
- metal, steel; fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 1.8 (box) x 2.6 (box) x 6.0; 6.7 (box) cm
- Description
- A machined steel implement, in the shape of a cartridge, with a groove around the base and a loose ball bearing in a slot at the tip. The ball bearing rolls against a knob at the end of the extractor to grasp a broken shell fragment when inserted into a rifle and then withdrawn. The extractor is in its original cardboard box with a paper label on the lid reading “Broken Shell Extractor”. There is an instruction sheet printed on green paper with the U.S. Ordnance Report for testing on the other side and price of 75 cents each. The base of the extractor is marked with “7 M-M”.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0023
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