Any interest in discussing/buy/sell/trading .50-70 and .45-70 FA of the 1870s/80s?

[JBinIll]

I'm about 200+ miles south and east.

[sdkrag]

That's the one. Mine is full minus a couple that I used. I had to see if they would go off. They do. They also look great in period .45-70 or .50-70 dummy cartridges made up for show. It's interesting the dimensional differences with modern primers.

[Dick Hosmer]

FA experimented with Berdan primed ammo in 1877. I have an (empty) April 77 box, and one sample R F 4 77 round.

There seems to be some question as to whether this item exists as R F 3 77, or whether the March date simply refers to the earliest use of a h/s on Benet rounds.

Anyone have an example of a March Berdan box, or cartridge?

[da gimp]

what would a box of period original Winchester or gov't arsenal produced 1886 or 1887, .45-70 ammo go for? kinda looking myself.......

[Dick Hosmer]

Probably somewhere on the order of $150-$200, give or take. Have no idea of the relative scarcity between commercial and FA, as I only collect the latter.

[John R.]

I have a very nice New York State Militia .50-70 Rolling block with bayonet parked at a friend's place in Portland Oregon.Also a Martini- Henry MkIII along with an Egyptian Rolling Block in. 43 Egyptian if anyone is interested.
If so drop me a PM and we'll go from there.

Cheers,

John R.

[sdkrag]

Dick, At one time my father-in-law had a box of 10 original FA Forager shells. Cartridge collector we got them from told us it was the only box he knew of. They went with the Forager when he sold it.

[Dick Hosmer]

I have one - they are NOT common. Actually had my choice of three, about 30 years ago: Full sealed for way more than I could afford at the time, full buit opened (carefully, and w/divider intact), and rough, not full. I took the middle ground. Shells are untinned brass, F 20 9 00, in as-new condition. I also have the little blue hard-covered 2 or 3 page "manual" covering the field loading kit - have never seen, or heard of, another of them.