Posting this here as I thought you guys would appreciate the vintage aspect. I found these .22 cal bullets at a local gunshow this weekend. To cool to pass up @ 6$ box. The Wotkyn's Morse box says they were made by Smith's Custom Loads. This almost has to be the same Smith mentioned in Phil Sharp's book.

Over the years I've found some old bullets in original boxes. Often I bought them from sellers who were selling them in a bunch of reloading supplies at prices marked for normal reloading supplies!
I picked up a box of paper patched 255 gr. .380" bullets for the .38-55 Ballard years ago, marked JM Marlin on the box, and in pristine shape. Always wondered how they sat somewhere so long without ever being loaded up!

These are in my garage, I think they're from the early 50's. They're marked $2.50, I think my father bought them at Hollywood Gun Shop;

SBoomer wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2014 at 1:24pm:


I've had guys do the same thing before I could stop them! I don't know why they tear them open, when a sealed box indicates everything inside is as it left the factory. I've also nearly had people open boxes of ammo or bullets I had displayed with guns at our collector show, even with "Do not Touch" signs all over!
Here's a few of the old boxed bullets I've accumulated. Bottom is the JM Marlin paper patched 255 gr. .38 cal. Right above it is a box of Winchester 165 grain bullets marked for Marlin .32  To the left of that are some very strange Rem-UMC bullets in .30 cal-160 gr. that are marked "metal cased bullets", but the metal is bright and silvery like the color of lead! To the far right are Rem-UMC .38 S&W "sharp shoulder" bullets of 120 gr. They've never been opened, and I've always wondered what "sharp shoulder" bullets look like?
There's some more Win .30 caliber, and a box of .348 150 gr. bullets that say "soft point" but unopened. I have a box of those Sisk bullets also in .224 41 gr. marked "Super Lovell".
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I accumulate old primers also, and have a variety of old boxed primers too. One old box says "US Navy Gilding Primers" and is unopened, and I've wondered what the terminology means? Have a old box of Win. #4 primers that say they are "Marked W" on the primer. Fortunately that box is open, and indeed the primers have a "W" on them, and are divided by wood in each row!
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