This listing is for a 100% GENUINE antique Brass Patent Office patent application INVENTION item ID claim tag

THE serial NUMBER on the tag received, if you win my auction? will be DIFFERENT than the number shown as this one AS (# 16) was already SOLD...... I will try to get images updated ASAP with the different tag & its correct number

It CLEARLY STATES "Work Delivered Only on production of this ticket"

Without this tag?

You would be unable to uplift the item you had applied to patent

.....So this was a very IMPORTANT little tag for may hopeful and aspiring INVENTORS

Reverse reads "FIVE SHILLINGS REWARD if found and taken to DETECTIVE'S Department, City Police 26 Old Jewry E.C."(London)

This was the Headquarters of the City of London Police at 26 Old Jewry, E.C.2 from 1840 - 2001?

This is an EXTREMELY ECLECTIC ITEM almost UNIQUE (I would SAY "unique" ....but I have several of them)

It would make a great key chain fob.....but don't lose it, it will go to the wrong address

I purchased this from a dealer who had found them at the SCRAP YARD there to be MELTED DOWN for the Brass content That would have been a great shame to have lost such an historical item....."If it could talk?, what tales it could tell"