UK MIS ALPHA CAP 1

Item number                           :           UK MIS ALPHA CAP 1

Origin                                     :           United Kingdom

Style                                       :           Double barrel capper / decapper

Gauge                                     :           12

Maker                                     :           ALPHA

Markings                                :           “ALPHA 12” at one side of the press lever

“W. CHALKLEY WINCHESTER” at the other side

Bottom sizes                           :           Barrels ø 20 mm each

Weight                                    :           269 grams

Materials body                       :           Brass with steel decapping pin

Paint                                       :           N.a.

Condition                               :           Good.

Repairs                                   :           None

Remarks                                 :

There is nothing known about “ALPHA”. It is not mentioned in Nigel Brown’s “British Gunmakers”. Alpha worked for gunmakers. See ALPHA CAP 1, where Alpha made a capper for W. Chalkley in Winchester, apparently a gunshop – not a gunmaker, because not mentioned by Nigel Brown.