Are they painted or blasted? Funny how one's indented and the other raised. Victa used to vary the fronts of their thumb latch base moulds as well.
Yes Norm, great idea. Wish I thought of it when I last disposed of one.
Might grab any rusted bases I see for that reason.

Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!