cartridge box ID

[kablair]

Hi, I need some help Id'ing a belt cartridfe box - outside is black leather with the imprint RIM.
looks like a McKeever box. Inside are wooden blocks with 18 drilled holes. 45-70 fits these. What do I have ?

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[browningautorifle]

Probably a McKeever cartridge box for 45-70...here's something like it. They vary a bit in construction by age. Yours may not be for 45-70 though...http://www.jjmilitaryantiques.com/Ho...c#.VMfEYWc5CM8

Yours is marked for the Rhode Island Militia http://www.jjmilitaryantiques.com/Ho...c#.VMfE22c5CM8

[kablair]

Jim, you have been a help on all my searches ! Mine appears to be a Hagner Box, in slightly better shape than the picture but holds 18, not 16 rounds. Maybe this would account for the difference in size of the 50-70's in the illustration and my 45-70's.

My leather strap for the flap is torn off - any idea where I might get it repaired ?

- thanks, Kab

[browningautorifle]

It's old enough I'm not sure I'd do it. The leather is perhaps brittle or weak...Don't know about that. Yes, I understand you have two more holes...and if you say 45-70 fits then...remember, they use .50 for a bit because you couldn't kill a man with anything smaller...then they discovered the ultra modern 45-70... I think that's the way it went. I have an interest in all this older stuff too, just can't afford to own any...not any at all, just a Krag carbine...

[kablair]

Again, thanks Jim

Most of my items I picked up in the late 50's, early 60's. My 1884 I paid $20 for. The cartridge box was a whole $5. As my son is into this gear I was able to get rid of my cartridge belt and an '03 stock - more $5 items.
- Kab

[browningautorifle]

You're a lucky man Kab, I wish I'd been able to purchase this sort of thing way back. Best I could do was buy M1 carbines from the pawn shops back in the mid '70s and they were about $75 to $125 CDN at that time. I had an example of everything at one point...except I never saw an IP. The other stuff was around but not much in Canada. And, I was a starting off soldier so I had not too much money and no where safe to store this stuff.

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