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06-23-2018 03:39 PM
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I have been trying to avoid collecting ordinance for lack of room. You are not making it easy with photos like that.
Very nice score.
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It isn't taking up much room because I can't find much of it. I started collecting them about a year ago when an older member of my church gave me some WWI casings his dad brought home from WWI. I quickly bought up everything I could find locally and then that was it. Few and far between. These came from a very small military day at a flea market about an hour and a half away. Shells seem to be a lot rarer than casings. I didn't ask the guy how much the first time around because I figured it would be some ungodly sum. But I thought about it and figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Got the pair plus the extra fuse for $80 which I thought was very reasonable.
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That stuff used to be around forty years ago but then so were the guys that shot it. It's gone into collections and is gone. The brass has been melted down by the second and third generations that have no connection to it. Sent to the scrap yards...drive bands cut off... Check your local scrap dealer and ask about big brass from time to time.
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They do become an issue!
Its like enfielditis they like to flock together be prepared for them to multiply, all what I can fit in other stuff in the shed & smaller cases on book shelves its getting harder to sit in my room.......
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Ha! Ha! Looks just like my brother's home office!
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I'd say the marked nosecaps were Ilumination fuses.
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"...collecting ordinance..." An ordinance is a law. Stuff that goes boom, bang or whoosh is ordnance.
This might help.
http://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Identifi...rojectiles.pdf
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One 1944 105 casing and a couple of the navy powder test canisters is the extent of my present collection. I have been forwarding my ordinance finds to a friend with more room. Nice photos I may have to expand my horizons.
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Nice find just be careful, next it will be trench art, then you will need a bigger house.
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