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Picked up this 5.5mm ? pinfire blank round today at pudsey ,cut it when i got home..no markings other than a no5 ..can anyone tell me more about this round
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.
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