Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.039
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Recapper
Title:
Shotgun Shell Recapper — Half Round
Date:
1900
Description:
Steel shotgun shell recapper*. 2 hinged and spring handles — 1 with half round insert to hold, center and depress shell onto other which inserts cap. Handle engraved with crisscross pattern to aid grip. Leaf spring to open handles after squeezing home.
* looks like nutcracker.
Notes:
Collected & preserved by Thomas S. Parke
See "Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogue (p 329) in doc file
Search Terms:
Hunting
T&E
Subsistence
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