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First impression was the base of a shotshell. Then saw the .577, so guessed it was the base of one of the old foil rounds, but it looks too long. Now guessing it might be a pistol cartridge. Maybe a .577 Tranter? Howdah?
I have a coiled brass .577 Snider round, also a .577 paper cased shot round in my collection, and as you say, the brass is shorter than the example that you have. From my reference books, the Tranter pistol case was .800" long and the Howdah pistol case was 34.14mm long, so, going from the photograph, you have a .577 Tranter pistol case.
Narrowing it all down, both the Tranter designed Webley No. 1 and a number of so called Howdah pistols were chamber for the .577. Huge guns for a huge cartridge.
A quote from a Wiki entry supports glevums comment: ". . .the term "howdah pistol" is often applied to a number of English multi-barrelled handguns such as the Lancaster pistol (available in a variety of calibres from .380" to .577"),[SUP][4][/SUP] and various .577 calibre revolvers produced in England and Europe for a brief time in the mid-late 19th century."
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