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Mills No5 Base plug

Hi,

I suggest looking at Dave Sampson's Mills Grenade Directory - http://www.millsgrenades.co.uk/No5%20Base%20Plugs2.htm The attached link will take you directly to the No 5 Mills Base Plug Section where you can see that the manufactuer definately exists, however the type of metal and appearance would lead me to believe that somebody may have copied an original brass one ? Dave's Mills Grenades web site is definately the place to start with a question like this. Hope this helps.
 
Hi bud,

very much a fake. Here are a couple of my aluminium plugs, the first a fake, the 2nd, a Hinks a well preserved dug original. No way is the BGL original.

Andy
 

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Actually Paul, i thought that myself but its the front of Worrall Thompson's Diabetes Cook book, something i was diagnosed with in July, well under control by diet thank heavens.
Its actually bits of chicken on a stick being barbied.

Andy
 
Thanks guys I thought it probally was because it was in excellent condition and the type looked wrong as per the thread.
 
gothica7 said:
Actually Paul, i thought that myself but its the front of Worrall Thompson's Diabetes Cook book, something i was diagnosed with in July, well under control by diet thank heavens.
Its actually bits of chicken on a stick being barbied.

Andy
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have you propped them up with some sort of commando hand saw though?
 
Actually bud, i did.

Not Commando though but made for British troops during WW1, made by C H Blakeley & Son and dated 1917.It will soon be on feebay unless you are interested.

Andy
 
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