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For those of you feeling a little flush this festive season.
VERY RARE MK III .303 EXPERIMENTAL (NITRO RATHER THAN CORDITE) CARTRIDGE CASE FOR LEE-METFORD RIFLE
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex £999.99
VERY RARE MK III .303 EXPERIMENTAL (NITRO RATHER THAN CORDITE) CARTRIDGE CASE FOR LEE-METFORD RIFLE | in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex | Gumtree
So if anyone wants that case send him to me first as I have the live round... Pretty ridiculous for a half decayed case.
Troubling thing is somebody will buy it, fools and their money.
You bet...Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBadDog
I have a small collection of early 303 cartridges, but really not interested in the one posted above (even if it was complete!)
Seeing how the Z designator for nitro cellulose loaded ammo was introduced long after the Mk III ball was obsolete this is a "highly speculative" interpretation of this hs.
WW2 tracer
Suspect the seller wouldn't want to know anyway, but the headstamp to me looks more like it may be K39 VIIIZ or K39 BIIIZ. Either way, not a (broken) 303 case worth a grand.
.....................................Or is it just K39 VII Z?
Is it broken at the shoulder? Or is it a .410 case?
Difficult to say........could be either, but I think it is much more likely to be a standard case broken off at the neck. I've spent most of my life visiting firing ranges & battlefields picking this stuff up, & when the brass deteriorates & the round breaks into two, it is almost invariably at the neck/shoulder, with the bullet & the detached neck separating from the rest of the case. And with fired rounds the case is thin, fragile & exposed here, so again, the necks tend to break away.
I also just had a quick look at what types of 303 based cartridges Kynoch produced, & I could not see the shot cartridges listed for the original Witton Birmingham plant, only K2, which was the plant set up near Wigan.
Rotted right off below the shoulder...look at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 30Three
The dent on the rim looks like an extraction from a MG being slammed in and ripped out, either way if it was .999 pence someone may buy it but that's the biggest piece of H sh*te :lol: I mean the pic of the base is just out of focus when all the other pics are relatively clear. Hopefully no one takes the story.
Let's face it, even if it IS what the seller says it is, so what? I am not a cartridge collector myself, but have known many and can't think of one who would be willing to shell out just shy of $1800 CAD for an empty, broken, corroded casing from a late 1800's mass produced military rifle round. For goodness sakes, that is what the rifles that fired the ammunition are selling for now, and even that seems crazy.
Ed
Wow, look at the price, got one of them somewhere with the projectile still intact!!