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oughtsix
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Berdan Primers
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Found an old Cigar box with 2 sizes of Berdan primers. Luckily , I have some brass to use the .254's and the still go Pop!
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I believe the .254s are a useful size in cases like 8.15x46R and I think the .217s may be used in some military rounds. I'll have to check my books.
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Completely unrelated, but.... An empty bottle of Brillantine is pictured. My father, born in 1900 and who served in WWI, mentioned this very product several times in his later years. The manufacturer, Marrow, was est. in 1919, so the time fits. Although he pronounced it as Brilliantine. He had to go to work in a factory at age nine to help support his family. And no complaints. There were indeed "giants on the Earth in those days" (Misapplied quote). Thanks for the unintended retrospective.
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If you use those old primers don't forget they are probably corrosive, leaving salts behind when fired.
Used to wash the barrel out with water to get rid of any salts which of course attracts water and why so many old guns have rough barrels through lack of getting the salt out.
Looks like that glass jar contains primers which would be a pretty impressive hand grenade.
Regarding Brilliantine which I used when a schoolboy to impress the girls, the fashion for oiled hair was so common that it spawned another word called an antimacassar in the Victorian and Edwardian era which was a cloth on the backs of upholstered furniture to stop the oil in it from soiling the cloth.
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