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A SCARCE NATIONAL GREYHOUND RACING CLUB EAR TATTOO 'AIR-PISTOL' BY WEBLEY, serial no. 126, converted (possibly not by Webley) from a Webley Tempest air-pistol,

Provenance: designed to tattoo the ear of racing greyhounds, aimed at off setting the potential for a dog to change identity between races, it is based on a Webley Tempest air pistol frame where the former barrel becomes the cocking lever, the dog's ear was placed into the slot at the end of the device and the piston was used to drive a plate carrying a set of pins bearing a unique number through an ink pad leaving a unique number / letter tattooed in its ear, it was designed by an Allen John Douglas and patented in 1989 by Crofts and Assinder Ltd of Birmingham in conjunction with the National Greyhound Racing Club, interestingly it was never adopted by the National Greyhound Racing Club



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Estimate £80-120

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