- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lee-Metford cartridge-case. In glass-topped box with 1937.56.26-28, 30-32. [LM 10/10/2007]
- Person
- Maker Lee Metford
- Field collector Colenso
- Field collector John William Colenso
- PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland Collection
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1905
- Date collected
- 4 August 1905
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1937
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1937.56.29
- Research and responses
Note that it is actually spelt Lee Metford [MDA] The accession book seems to have been numbered incorrectly. It is possible that where it is written in the book that there are "7 Bullet cases:" there are in fact ten bullet cases and these Lee Metford cases are part of the ten. But, the seven bullet cases have been given individual numbers. The catalogue card entry also suggests that the accession book was numbered incorrectly. However, as it is possible that there are seven bullet cases as well as those listed afterwards in the accession book I have added a computer entry for the bullet cases 1937.56.18 - 1937.56.24. [MdeA 7 7 1997]
Note that this cartridge case was found in a box labelled 5 English Lee Metford cartridge cases and 3 Boer Mauser cartridge cases. PAARDEBERG, S. AFRICA, Sept. 6, 1905. Acland coll. Transfered from the Geological Dept., 1937." [MdeA]
BUT ALSO NOTE that although this cartridge case is definitely a Lee Metford case written on a label stuck to it is "English Cartridge case from Colenso Aug 4 1905". There is no other mention of Colenso in any of the documentation. [MdeA 25 11 1997]
Search terms: Firearm Weapon, Firearm Accessory, Bullet, Cartridge