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Spud Oldtimer Offline Posts: 504 Location: Australia Oz Joined: Feb 24^th, 2005	Show find Oct 22^nd, 2018 at 8:21pm	Print Post
	We had the annual meeting of the Australian Cartridge Collectors' Assoc. last weekend. It was a great event and the highlight for me was finding a full packet of early Eley .25/21 Stevens. The Brits sure liked to wrap cartridges in brown paper & tie it up with string. Some collector had pried a corner open to peek at the head stamp...so did I & there was head stamp which is unusual. This little gem was inside a box that was buried inside a tin full of packets on a dealer's table......you have to dig for gold ! UMC round for comparison Spud


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Spud Oldtimer Offline Posts: 504 Location: Australia Oz Joined: Feb 24^th, 2005	Re: Show find Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2018 at 8:23pm	Print Post
	That should say..."there was NO head stamp" Spud


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Joe Do... Oldtimer ASSRA Board Member ASSRA Journal Editor Offline Posts: 594 Location: 'burbs of Chicago Joined: May 19^th, 2012	Re: Show find Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 8:15am	Print Post
	That's a very cool find! I have a tradition (habit) of buying a box of cartridges at each gun show I attend. Every once in a while I look at my bookshelves and realize I've "invested" enough money in vintage cartridges that would be the equivalent of a very nice rifle. Congratulations on a rare find!


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Show find Reply #3 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 11:28am	Print Post
	Joe Do... wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 8:15am: That's a very cool find! I have a tradition (habit) of buying a box of cartridges at each gun show I attend. Every once in a while I look at my bookshelves and realize I've "invested" enough money in vintage cartridges that would be the equivalent of a very nice rifle. Congratulations on a rare find! Doesn't take too many nice old boxes of cartridges to equal a nice gun these days! I sometimes think I should sell some and buy another gun! Most I have were purchased decades ago when they weren't so highly prized (or priced). I can recall buying nice old lift top boxes of various old ammo for $10-$20 a box. Now they're 10x that, or more.

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3585 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Show find Reply #4 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 12:33pm	Print Post
	Joe and Vall, you ain't alone in buying those boxes, or a few singles, at shows. I suppose I first did it to have 'period' ammo for a gun (I collect a coin or two for the same reason). But, I believe that somewhere along the line, it served as a pacifier when I couldn't get a rifle deal going. Then, I started telling folks that, "no, I'm a cartridge collector too". Sound at all familiar?........... And, am I a coin collector in addition..........................?


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3585 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Show find Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 12:40pm	Print Post
	Spud, you got a neat find at the bottom of that heap. Good fer you! When you get a sealed one, isn't it a horrible temptation to do what happened to that one you have? I bought a sealed two-piece box of Winchester brand .38 long with the earliest Stetson markings. Sealed, and in fine condition from a guy that was tired of lugging it around. Now I've held every one of the rounds in my hand individually. Why? Dropped onto the floor and busted open like bomb explosion. BE CAREFULL, my friend.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Show find Reply #6 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 1:23pm	Print Post
	calledflyer wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 12:33pm: Joe and Vall, you ain't alone in buying those boxes, or a few singles, at shows. I suppose I first did it to have 'period' ammo for a gun (I collect a coin or two for the same reason). But, I believe that somewhere along the line, it served as a pacifier when I couldn't get a rifle deal going. Then, I started telling folks that, "no, I'm a cartridge collector too". Sound at all familiar?........... And, am I a coin collector in addition..........................? I've always told friends I'm NOT a cartridge collector. But it's hard to say that and look at my gun room. Just a lot of evidence to prove I'm fibbing.

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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: Show find Reply #7 - Oct 23^rd, 2018 at 2:20pm	Print Post
	That's a really nice find! All the old ammo I come across recently has pretty much crumbled away. The ammo I came across as a kid has held up pretty well, but that's ww1 and later. Nice you could find it in the shape it's in.


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