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Description: | Fragment from the handle of a lead-alloy toy gun dating to the late ninteenth or twentieth century. The fragment is flat and crescentric in the form of a snakes head. The head is roughly lozenge shaped set within a perimeter defined by a deep channel. The eyes are two round holes which go right through to the other side, suggesting that they were used to contain rivets rather settings. The body of the snake is decorated with incised v-shaped scales. The reverse is slightly concave.
The type of toy gun from which this fragment probably derives is known generically as a 'Gamage Gun', after A.W. Gamage, who ran the People's Emporium of Holborn, London, and was a major supplier of them (information courtesy of UKDFD). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1890
1920 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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