Tie Clip
 

This item has always puzzled me. It was my Grandfathers and I often wondered would he have worn this during the War or was this something that he would have picked up later. For those that did not read my story in the Introduce yourself section...my Grandfather died in 1959 so our family does not know for sure when he received it.

If you google the maker mark it says in their bio that the founder in "1938 founded the Anderson Tool and Die Company, making tools and dies for the jewelry manufacturing business. During WWII activity in the jewelry making business was curtailed so they converted their jewelry making machinery to milling machines and entered into war production work. With the completion of the war contracts, the present company was formed and entered the men's jewelry mfg. business in 1945, manufacturing and selling a new type of collar holder."

The key word is curtailed...which means essentially to cut.

So the questions are: Could this have been made and sold to the soldiers overseas while they were in England? Has anyone seen another one of these before? Was this purchased after the war?

It looks like a shotgun to me. Sportsman's tie bar perhaps? I really don't think that it is military at all.

Phil

Looks like a winchester model 12 shotgun... second pick would be a remington model 870... I don't beleive it is military at all... was your grandpa a bird hunter?

Hi Jim,

He loved to hunt and fish for sure.

I too had noted that it was a shotgun as well but thought that perhaps the American company 'Anson' had made the tie clip to appeal to a broad base of people...guess the Americans would not want a Lee Enfield tie clip (lol).

I think you are all correct that it is post war and was more to do with his hunting...but I thought I would see if anyone had come across this tie clip before on the outside chance that it was a war period item.

Cheers,
Mike