Early & Transitional

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Last updated: January 13, 2012

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Legend: BP=Black Powder, 2pc=Two piece lift-top box, Sld=Sealed, Lbl=Label, Pr=Primer HS=Headstamp, NHS=No Headstamp Color Codes: BL, GRN, WH, YEL, BLK, PLD (PLAID), ETC.
Caliber	Description	$
30 Eagle Cupfire	Phoenix Metallic Ctdge Co, "Eagle Cartridges" in desirable Black Box w/ gold print. This box is full of its original 50 rds of raised "P" headstamps!	750 sold
30 Eagle Cupfire	Phoenix Metallic Ctdge Co, "Eagle Cartridges" (cupfire) in the desirable Black Box w/ gold print. A great EARLY box which would be collectible even if empty, this box has 25 of its original 50 rds of raised "P" headstamps!	$575
36 Whitney or Colt	Civil War era wood-block packet, wrapped & SEALED with string-pull intact. For the Whitney or Colt's Mod 1851 Navy revolvers. [From my personal collection]	$525 sold
36 Colt, Whitney or Remington's Navy Pistol	D.C. Sage. Another Civil War packet, these are the desirable "Hotchkiss Patent" (of Feb 11, 1862) "Seamless Skin Cartridges", wrapped & SEALED in a wood-block pkt of six with string-pull intact. [From my personal collection]	$575 sold
12 m/m Pinfire	UMC. Box of 25, ca 1870s-'80s. Very hard to find American-made boxes in this caliber as most boxes are of European manufacture.	$185 sold
44 Colt Packet (REPRO)	Paul R. Murphy, Boston Mass. This packet of 6 reproduction .44 Colt "Combustible Envelope Cartridges", while not a risk to being passed off as a genuine, "period" packet, it is minty and quite possibly (and feels like) it contains repro cartridges (unlike the phony packets going around). Anybody know anything about these, when they were made or who Paul Murphy was? Neat item at any rate!	$45
"44 Army Revolver"	*Watervliet Arsenal, 1864. A TRUE* CIVIL WAR PACKET! No BS about this one. If you want a genuine article from that terrible war, this is it! SEALED AND COMPLETE!**	$1100 sold
44 Colt 1861 Army/ Dragoon	Johnston & Dow, NYC. "Waterproof & Combustible / CARTRIDGES / Cal. 46-100, with Percussion Caps, / For Colt's Army Revolvers, Cal. 44-100. / Patented Oct 1st, 1861, Jan 7th, and June 24th, 1862." Early Civil War soft-pack of 6, SEALED. (Scanned, not photo'd.) [From my personal collection]	$650 sold
44 Colt & Rem	Frankford Arsenal, "Martin [primed] Cartridges, For Colt's and Remington's Revolvers". Very early (1st year) SEALED 12-pack, dtd June, 1871. Pull string intact w/ none of the common edge splits. NOT a glued-edge, repaired packet as are so many of these.	950 sold
44 Colt & Rem	Frankford Arsenal "For Colt's and Remington's Revolvers". Early SEALED pkt of 12, dtd January 1873. Pull string intact. Spot on upper rt edge (visible in scan) is a drop of the original shellac coating. Rare in any condition, especially so this nice! From my personal collection.	950 sold
44 Colt & Rem	Frankford Arsenal, "For Colt's and Remington's Revolvers", string-pull 12-rd pkt w/ string intact. Dated January 1873, these are early Benet-primed rds, the priming system that succeeded the Martin primers and lasted in various calibers into the early 1880s. Beautifully centered label, an extremely attractive display piece.	695 sold
44 S&W	National Armory. "For Smith & Wesson's Army Revolver". Very scarce early (April 1871) SEALED box of "Martin-primed" cartridges. The National Armory, founded in Spfld MA in 1777, was George Washington's concept designed to safeguard our young nation's armament from the British. The last dated ammo I have seen from Nat'l Armory is 1871, the year of this box. Thereafter everything is from Frankford Arsenal. Virtually perfect: no tears or splits, pull string intact. This is a real piece of our country's history! [This packet is virtually identical to the one sold earlier this year @$975 off this very page. You may recognize that I have not changed the description from that listing: it is reprinted here exactly as it appeared then].	975 sold
44 S&W	Frankford Arsenal, "Martin" primed "For Smith & Wesson's Army Revolver". Here is the box that followed the one above, dtd August 1871. Though there are edge areas where the shellac coating (that was on all these bxs) stuck to adjacent boxes in the crates, this totally original example is virtually perfect: no tears or splits w/ pull string intact. From my personal collection.	775 sold
45 Colt	45 Colt 12-pk dated April, 1874. These pre-Schofield packets were month-dated from their Oct 1873 introduction until Aug 1874 ONLY! This one has, in my opinion, been opened and closed back. However it looks sealed and retains the pull-string at left end as appropriate. This is a GREAT display box for about 60-65% of the price of an orig sealed one. I'll pay the return shipping if you don't like it!	$495 sold
45 Colt & Schofield 1878	Frankford Arsenal, 1878, sealed. Edges have no seam splits & string-pull is intact. NICE!	$375
45 Colt & Schofield 1880	Frankford Arsenal, 1880, Schofield & Colt. 1880 is the first year that these packets were not shellacked. Velocity/date stamp on side is very clear (see pic). Much less common than the 1878 packets. Nice, SEALED!	$425 sold
50 Army Pistol	Frankford Arsenal, May 1873. "For Remington's Army Pistol". Nearly all of the boxes seen in this caliber have had the date cut out with a razor, a practice of Francis Bannerman & Co when they were selling Gov't war surplus ammo and didn't want buyers to know how old the stuff was. This nearly flawless example has pull-string intact and shows NO seam splits. [Lbl not centered, covers part of both top & side.]	$450 sold
56-.50 Spencer	Sage Ammunition Works. In business under that name from 1864 to August 1866 only, this box contains 6 pkts of 7 rds each, corresponding to the magazine capacity of the Spencer rifle. This is the most displayable of all the 42-rd Spencer boxes: While most of these "42-rounders" were tall with lids on the small end (see box above), the label and lid of this flat box are on the larger ("flat") side. Clean & solid.	675 sold
56-.50 Spencer	One of the orig internal 7-packs from a 42-rd (6 of these 7-pks) box by unknown maker. Sealed. [Label is my own]	125