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Cartridge Trading Table Picture Page April 2013 A box of wartime Japanese 6.5mm Arisaka......
Loose 6.5 mm Japanese Arisaka cartridges tend to be relatively common, but I don't tend to run across the boxes very often in my travels. Its probably just a matter of my needing to get out more, as these boxes probably not that scarce. The cartridges in the box are typical, with unheadstamped cases, pointed cupro-nickel bullets, red neck sealant, and three stamped crimps securing the brass primers. The red sealant indicates that these are ball cartridges.
The box has a well marked label, which provides the weapon the ammunition was intended for, the date of manufacture, perhaps the ammunition factory where the ammunition was made, and other information. Unfortunately, I can't decipher much of this label. The upper column of three characters on the left probably indicates that the contents are rifle ammunition, with the upper two characters on the right indicating that it was intended for the Type 38 rifle or carbine. The row just below the 14 says 359, and the row below the 88 says 203; I haven't a clue what any of these sets of numbers (14, 259, 88, and 203) refer to. In the bottom row of print, the first character is the abbreviated 'Showa' followed by 14.12, the year and month the box was produced. Showa is the name given to Emperor Hirohito’s reign which began in 1925; adding 14 to 1925 provides the year the box was made - 1939. The numeric month code is the same as we use here, with 12 indicating the month of December. .
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