Hope this isn't what it looks like!
I was going through some old MD'ing finds today and ran across this old item. It appears to screw into something at one end and the other looks like the back of a center fire cartridge. Embossed on the shaft is either 40 sec. or 40 s & c. It looks to me like some kind of percussion fuse, but I HOPE I am wrong! Don't quite know how to dispose of it if that's what it is, but until I find out, I will be handling it very gingerly!. Maybe just something harmless--I hope so! Thanks and please let me know if you can identify!
I was going through some old MD'ing finds today and ran across this old item. It appears to screw into something at one end and the other looks like the back of a center fire cartridge. Embossed on the shaft is either 40 sec. or 40 s & c. It looks to me like some kind of percussion fuse, but I HOPE I am wrong! Don't quite know how to dispose of it if that's what it is, but until I find out, I will be handling it very gingerly!. Maybe just something harmless--I hope so! Thanks and please let me know if you can identify!