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5.5mm pinfire blank
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Chris 42 RQ
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Nice job!
Must have been a very "delicate" job to cut that one Allan, well it turned out nice !
All I know about pinfire cartridges is that if you drop them on a hard surface they can go off which is a bit worrying !:bawling:=:nurse:=:embarassed:
Must have been a very "delicate" job to cut that one Allan, well it turned out nice !
All I know about pinfire cartridges is that if you drop them on a hard surface they can go off which is a bit worrying !:bawling:=:nurse:=:embarassed:
Aaron
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Perfect.
This was made by Sellier and Bellot, at their factory in Schnebeck/Elbe, Germany.
This factory was later sold to Wrttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) as S&B condensed their operations to just their locations in Czechoslovakia.
Here is a poor copy of the box that the ball rounds of this same cartridge would have came in. The blanks would be in very similar box with maybe a sticker stating they were blanks.
This was made by Sellier and Bellot, at their factory in Schnebeck/Elbe, Germany.
This factory was later sold to Wrttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) as S&B condensed their operations to just their locations in Czechoslovakia.
Here is a poor copy of the box that the ball rounds of this same cartridge would have came in. The blanks would be in very similar box with maybe a sticker stating they were blanks.
I think pinfire ammo was very common in the 19th century but fell out of favour in the early 20th century, mainly because of the hazard to safety that it posed. For about a year in the late 1980s I was in charge of a `returned ammo register', receiving mainly SAA from police and military sources, for disposal. All the pinfire stuff had to be packed very carefully in tissue paper then into small boxes and then into ammo boxes.
