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Mills practice detonators
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if you can Jeff see if there's any date stamped in to anvil body
that's a post war tin John
I haven't found a date, but I haven't checked all of them yet. This is all I've found.
By George you're right Dave. I'd never looked that closely but it is dated 6/66. I thought post war the boxes of 12 had been replaced by the tubes of 3 36s. Post WW2 is not my era really.
I bought it from my gunsmith on Romney Marsh who had bought the tin / dets, a few wartime dated practice 36s and a couple of drill 68's, plus wartime training manuals and a large training model of a 36. All from the widow of the ex Home Guard instructor. I can now only assume he's acquired it later to complete his set.