Hi Brian,
These small tins often accompany a cased Walther LP53 - nice find!
John
Hi,
I was given this full miniature tin of RWS Meisterkugeln pellets and wondered if they would have possibly been originally offered as a complimentary part of some German air pistol (Walther LP53 etc.) These miniature tins always look neat, especially when they accompany a nice boxed air pistol.
Thanks
Brian
Hi Brian,
These small tins often accompany a cased Walther LP53 - nice find!
John
Here's another sealed full tin of similar size:
Yes i have quite a few examples of these pellets in my LP53 de lux cases.
Roly.
Anybody know if these 1970s miniature Webley pellet tins were a complimentary accessory to a set ? The strange thing about this particular tin is that it breaks the Webley convention of orange for .22 and green for .177.
Brian
[QUOTE=Benelli B76;7730555]Could make this a hobby, collecting tiny tins.
Baz
Hi Baz,
And another.
Brian
And another. 200 not 100.
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Here's another, marked 'Sample' :
I can remember that when I first got an air rifle a tin of 500 .177 Eley Wasp (Red Tin) was six shillings (30 pence) at the local iron mongers.
Later on he also started to stock Milbro Caledonian and Bull Dog Pellets these were offered in tins of 500 or 200 or sometimes cardboard boxes.
These tins look very collectable now but back then they made very attractive targets once they were empty
I have never seen tins or boxes of 100, except for the match wadcutters that would have come in square plastic boxes/trays and individually separated by being in foam inserts? And were far too expensive for young boys!
If it has a trigger, I'm gonna enjoy it!
I remember buying boxes of 100 Lanes cat slugs for 6d.(1958)These were non-waisted pellets and worked well in my Diana No 2, pop-out barrel pistol. They were in a flimsy white square cardboard box. They were also sold in 500 box for 2/6d. I think the 500 box was light green - again a flimsy box.
Hello,
Although this particular miniature tin is quite hard to find, it is undoubtedly an intended Webley accessory probably included as a complimentary addition to a boxed set. The two pellet tins pictured below are also very hard to find with the one pictured on the right also breaking the Webley convention regarding colour and calibre. I have an example of the correctly colour coded tin pictured on the left which contained just 250 .22 pellets instead of the usually found 500 pellets. The tin on the right however, which contained 500 .177 pellets still eludes me and I would be grateful for any leads which might help in finding an example of this extremely rare tin.
Brian