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Cartridge Trading Table Featuring a wide range of antique, obsolete, and modern ammunition for collectors Picture Page July 2005 Several unusual .450 Marlin cartridge cases.....
I received the three .450 Marlin cartridge cases in this picture from an Engineer at Hornady's Case Division a couple of years ago, in partial trade for a several examples of an obsolete automatic pistol cartridge the company was considering putting into production. The first is a prototype fired case, produced sometime prior to the .450 Marlin headstamp bunter having been made. Next is a prototype dummy case; though the primer appears to be real, it is actually a part of the case, having been formed in place. The blackened case with its blind primer pocket is another prototype dummy case, made especially for the Marlin Firearms Company, and intended for their use in function testing their early production rifles in this caliber. The last is a production Hornady .450 Marlin cartridge. > >
An assortment of 6.5 Japanese Arisaka cartridges.....
The cartridges pictured here are examples of the semi-rimmed 6.5 x 51mm
Arisaka cartridge, developed in 1897 for use in the Japanese Type 30 service
rifle, and one of the primary rifle cartridges used by Japan until their
defeat in World War 2. The standard ball load of this cartridge typically
has a pointed copper or nickel jacketed bullet, and three deep stake marks
on the head to hold the primer securely in place against the recoil of the
rifle. The first cartridge in this picture is an example of this most common
variation. These are also found without the stake marks on the head, as seen
on the second cartridge. The next two in the picture are blanks, the one on
the left having a wood bullet, and the other having a paper bullet. These
two were either made as dummies, or their primers have been removed
for the purpose of making them inert for display purposes. The first two
cartridges in the second picture are both dummies, and are easily identified
by the two knurled cannelures on their cases. Note the the differences in
the bullets on these, the first appearing to be a standard ball, and the
second having been apparently turned from steel rod on a lathe. The workmanship on this bullet is of
very poor quality, with
deep turning marks still quite evident from forming the point. The next two
cartridges appear to be grenade launching blanks, the first with a flat nose
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copper jacketed projectile and the second with a nickeled round nose
projectile. The last cartridge was made by Kynoch in 1916, intended for use
in a number of Arisaka rifles purchased by the British Government and used
by their home guard during World War 1. Headstamped K 16 II, it is the
only cartridge in the group with a headstamp.