Top row, left to right

1—4-gauge Ball, biggest rifle shell ever pro-
duced. The bullet weighs a quarter of
a pound.

2—.60 calibre Chinese Jingal.

8—Double barrel ball, unknown.

4—70/150 Winchester, one of the rarest
shells in any collection.

5—.50 cal. 3%” Sharpe (longest rifle case
ever produced in the U.S.).

6—.64 Maynard.

7—.44/100 Maynard.

8—.50 Maynard.

9—.35/30 Maynard.

10—.40/40 Maynard.

11—.35/30 Maynard.

12—.50 Billinghurst &—Requa Mitvailleuse.

13—.54 Burnside.

14—.45/78 Wolcott.

15—6 m.m. U.S. Navy rimless.

16—.236 U.S. Navy rimmed.

17—.276 Pedersen device.

18—.270 P.M.V.F. Magnum.

Second row, left to right
1—.660 Dreyse needle gun.
2— 434 Starr Linen.
3—.69 Martial U.S. pistol.
4—44 Combustible.

Belgian cases. Their manufacture
sometimes meant sales and profits, but
their use made history-

The Capture of Mandalay

Take a famous old shell like the
577 /450 Martini Henry; this is the
arm that British. troops in scarlet
tunics and swirling kilts held high
overhead as they crossed waist deep
Burmese rivers in 1885 to capture
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6—.577 pistol—double_barrelled—English.
7—.577 pistol—double barrelled—English.
8—11.5 m.m. Werder pistol.
9—15 m.m. (Cal. .591) French revolver.
10—10 m.m. Hirst.
11—45 Mars pistol.
12—9 m.m. Mars pistol.
12—12 m.m. Galand.
14—.476 Tranter revolver.
15—104 m.m. Swiss ordnance revolver.
16—.44 Allen & Wheelock lip fire.
17—.42 Eagle cup primer.
18—15 m.m. Pinfire.
19—.36 Colt Theur.
20—.32 National flat tip.
21—44 Martin primed cartridge.
Third row, left to right
1—.54 Hunt or Jennings.
m.m. Kolibri automatic—smallest
shell made.
8—-.41 Volcanic.
4—9 m.m. gravity feed.
5—Unknown.
6—Unknown.
7—Bullet from 13 m.m. taper bore cartridge.
8—.58 Mont Storm.
9—.58 Springfield musket rim fire.
10—.50/70 Government rim fire.
11—.56/46 Spencer.

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Afghanistan, and over the burning
veldt of Africa, Tommies carried the
old Martini, joking about it, cursing
it, and even singing songs about it.
Many experts claim that the Martini
action, in a modern arm, is still tops.

Nearer our own time is the shell for
the .30 calibre Krag, which fever-laden
U.S. troops carried at El Caney, San
Juan Hill and through the Phillipine
campaign of fifty years ago. They were
the forerunners of those G.I.’s who

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