British Ordnance Collectors Network
Join over 14,000 collectors of inert military ordnance. Get expert identification help for shells, fuzes, grenades, and more — plus access our classifieds marketplace and decades of archived knowledge. Free to register, takes seconds.
7.63 mauser pistol cartridge
- Thread starter Darrol
- Start date
TonyE
HONOURED MEMBER RIP
7.63mm
Difficult to say with any precision but probably from the 1930s.
The bullets have a cupro-nickel envelope so that makes them pre-WW2 and since ICI (Kynoch's parent company shown on the cap) was not formed until 1926, that gives you a date range.
Also, although your photo of the headstamp is too low resolution to easily read, I think it shows the calibre as ".30"? I think that was changed on later production to "7.63mm".
Regards
TonyE
Difficult to say with any precision but probably from the 1930s.
The bullets have a cupro-nickel envelope so that makes them pre-WW2 and since ICI (Kynoch's parent company shown on the cap) was not formed until 1926, that gives you a date range.
Also, although your photo of the headstamp is too low resolution to easily read, I think it shows the calibre as ".30"? I think that was changed on later production to "7.63mm".
Regards
TonyE
