AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING EAR TAGGER DESIGNED TO TATTOO THE E...

Hammer

£20

AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING EAR TAGGER DESIGNED TO TATTOO THE EAR OF RACING GREYHOUNDS, aimed at off setting the potential for a dog to change identity between races, it is based on a Webley Tempest air pistol frame where the former barrel becomes the cocking lever, the dog's ear was placed into the slot at the end of the device and the piston was used to drive a plate carrying a set of pins bearing a unique number through an ink pad leaving a unique number tattooed in its ear, it was designed by an Allen John Douglas and patented in 1989 by Crofts and Assinder Ltd of Birmingham in conjunction with the National Greyhound Racing Club, this specimen is marked 'Property of the NGRC Serial Number 117'', interestingly it was never adopted by the National Greyhound Racing Club