Percussion cap tin

Started by Barbarosa, June 07, 2007, 07:01:12 AM

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Barbarosa

     Here is a pic of one of my tin of percussion caps. It is a full tin , sealed & unopened, J. Goldmark's No. 10 caps.
     I don't know the date of manufacture.

Will Dearborn

The contents of this box include the following: one small tin of upholstery tacks (presumably for posting targets); one round cardboard cap box (G.D. Qualité supérieure) filled with precut cotton or linen shooting patches approximately .011" thick by slightly more than one inch in diameter, clearly for a small caliber;and one tin of percussion caps: "J. Goldmark's Percussion Caps (1855, 1858, 10-6-1925) Made by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn."

THat's the best I could find.  It was in a picture of a shooting box somebody had seen and made a reproduction of the box. 

Here's the link with it in it....

Muzzle Blasts Online,Vol. 3, No. 2.,;Make an Old-time Shooting Box

http://www.muzzleblasts.com/archives/vol3no2/articles/mbo32-2.html

Long days and pleasant nights,
Will

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