by No1Mk3 » 08 May 2017, 4:51 pm
G'day Mr Fishimus,
The 38Spl was a military round also, as was the 357Mag. Yours is Federal Cartridge 1957. Mil ammo was also loaded by Lake City (LC) as well as Winchester (WCC). The necked down case could be any number of wildcats, such as 30 Badger among others, both 38Spl and 357Mag are still popular cases to "play around" with. The case on the right is 7.62x39, the AK47 cartridge, yours was made at State Factory 71 in Northern China, who also load the commercial Norinco ammo. The Eley pinfire cartridge could be a wide number of calibers, you would need to accurately measure the bullet diameter at the case junction, case diameter and length, pin length, and distance of the pin from the end of the case. In the early days pinfire was very common and a huge number of variants exist, as well as revolvers to fire them including 12 and 18 shot revolvers! That last one is going to need a better (clearer) pic of the trademark for positive ID, but I can almost certainly say it is not Nambu. Imperial Army ammo was never headstamped, Imperial Navy ammo was but I haven't seen that type of stamping. At the moment I am leaning toward 8mm Kromar or perhaps Schonberger Auto? Would bet it was European at least. Can you measure case length, neck length, case base diameter and neck diameter, bullet at the case diameter and that would give me something to hunt, Cheers.
PS: You seem to have aquired quite a varied and interesting lot of cartridges.