Inert .303 British Mk VII Round – RL 1917 Royal Laboratory WW1 Cartridge Paperwork well-preserved markings

well-preserved markings

Items like this would have been carried and issued as part of operational kit

these notes circulated throughout Britain during a critical period in 1940 and represent an important part of the nation’s financial wartime history

with the motto "Or Glory" inscribed on a scroll beneath

but the primers themselves have been fully deactivated

Inert .303 British Mk VII Round – RL 1917 Royal Laboratory WW1 Cartridge Paperwork well-preserved markingsOriginal inert . 303 British Mk VII cartridge with RL 17 headstamp, manufactured in 1917 by the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, London during the First World War. The RL factory code identifies production by the historic Royal Laboratory at Woolwich, one of Britains principal government ammunition facilities during WW1. The 17 date places this cartridge in the middle of the Great War when British ammunition production was operating at maximum