Eley Black Boy tin on auction site

[hwvixen]

Any more for any more.....come on don't be shy..have a guess

[harvey_s]

£82.75 for me...

[Nocity]

An `unopened' tin of Black Boy went for £72.00 Plus £2.00 postage, on the same site back in August.

How can you claim that a tin of that age is unopened?

[hwvixen]

You do get the odd.."sleeper"..I've seen an old ironmongers still selling 1950's slugs....

[edbear2]

An `unopened' tin of Black Boy went for £72.00 Plus £2.00 postage, on the same site back in August.

How can you claim that a tin of that age is unopened?

Here are some earlier ones from a different maker.....as you can see they are secured with a gum strip....early British tins, say up to to 1940's, used the same system, so Wasp, Pylarms etc. with the paper stick on labels used to be taped shut....Webley used a red seal tape very similar to elastoplast

So they do turn up undisturbed now and again!

Pylarm (early) tin showing sealing tape (but has been opened);

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3122848...7607964699940/

Sealed 70+ year old Wasps;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3122848...7607964699940/

They normally separate at the lid/base join due to rust when in this condition...see second tin down....so I used the contents to fill an empty, but nicer similar tin I already had.....

[silva]

Hello Silva,

Its been a while : hope your well.
I think you'll find a mutual friend of ours has one of those.
I could be wrong , but I think so.

Sam

Hi Sam,

Greetings, you're right. Funnily enough, I'd not seem him for ages and bumped into him by chance at the Midland game fair and somehow the subject of Black Boy pellet tins and boxes cropped up !

[johnbaz]

I used to have one, complete with original contents but sold it before they started fetching the money they do now. What do they say about hindsight?

John

Hindsight

I sold my mint and boxed Webley Typhoon a few years ago for £30 and quite a few rifles for £30 each, a Sharps innova in superb condition, a HW80, a BSA Mercury


John

[Tantomurata]

They fetched just £48.50 plus postage. Much lower than I've seen similar sell for previously on that same site.

[hwvixen]

What.........who's the nearest.....

[jai$1]

having just seen this thread iam off to find my original box that i have had kicking about for the last 20 years