For Sale: Antique gin trap

[Rascal2018]

For sale and old gin trap used as display

£40

 

[timbrayford]

Perhaps Cwiss will buy it to put one of his road kill BOPs in?

 

[User00056]

These are really interesting. I bought a few from a rowp a few years ago, and found I had three different iterations of them. The early ones have the eye firewelded to the spring, later ones have a one-piece stamped spring and eye (which is what I think yours may be), and the later 1950's versions had a wire spring. You should find a makers name stamped on it somewhere? Hanes were very prolific.

Rightly outlawed since the late 50's, but they're a very interesting piece of agricultural history I think.

 

[VSS]

These are really interesting. I bought a few from a rowp a few years ago, and found I had three different iterations of them. The early ones have the eye firewelded to the spring, later ones have a one-piece stamped spring and eye (which is what I think yourself may be), and the later 1950's versions had a wire spring. You should find a makers name stamped on it somewhere? Hanes were very prolific.

Rightly outlawed since the later 50's, but they're a very interesting piece of agricultural history I think.

I unearthed two hessian sackfuls of them when clearing out an old shed, all immaculately maintained and ready for use. They'd been sitting there untouched since the ban.

 

[lochty]

Castor oil was the stuff.....I believe

 

[old keeper]

I can remember as a young man going to the local ironmongers who had a big wooden tub of them outside the shop. From memory, they were 2/6d (12.5P) each.

They were undoubtedly cruel, but things were very different then.

 

[3red dogs]

Don’t waste your time trying to sell them .
Thousands about if you took hard enough

 

[scotch_egg]

Don’t waste your time trying to sell them .
Thousands about if you took hard enough

Of value to some one somewhere

Vintage Traps | Gin Traps for sale - collectors only

Gin Traps For Sale - collectors only

www.vintagetraps.co.uk

 

[lochty]

If the spring has gone weak, a bit of judicious welding and they make a great attachment for a door bell ring push.