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  • Occam

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    Still excavating late FIL's stuff. Another long-gone relative in that branch was a US Army major WWI. Apparently he liked to make "trench art" while bogged down in a ditch in France - which he was, for a long time.
     

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    Rambler

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    Oct 22, 2011
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    Pretty cool.
    What are the head stamps on those cartridges?
    The bottom looks like .30-06; what is the top?
     

    KH195

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    Very neat! I’ve always liked trench art, my great grand father brought a couple pieces back from WWI as well. Looks like the bottom one in your pic is inscribed “St. Nazaire”? Maybe a memento for the port his unit landed at? St. Nazaire Naval Operating Base on the west coast of France began to receive AEF troops June 1917 I believe.
     

    Occam

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    St. Nazaire was something of a go-to spot for soldiers able to take a break from the front. Known for, among other things, its brothels apparently!

    Sorry I didn’t get a shot of the head stamps. The brass have some cut out coin seals on them. The obvious .30-06 has an eagle/shield. That 30-ish rimmed cartridge was decorated with a crown of sorts. Felt Britishy, but could have been French.

    The head stamps definitely were gummed up and a bit corroded, but no obvious numbers. More like proof marks. The rimmed brass had something that looked like a triangle and then a couple of slashed lines. I’d probably recognize them if I saw another similar image of them. Will do some googling.
     

    Blacksmith101

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    Jun 22, 2012
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    St. Nazaire was something of a go-to spot for soldiers able to take a break from the front. Known for, among other things, its brothels apparently!

    Sorry I didn’t get a shot of the head stamps. The brass have some cut out coin seals on them. The obvious .30-06 has an eagle/shield. That 30-ish rimmed cartridge was decorated with a crown of sorts. Felt Britishy, but could have been French.

    The head stamps definitely were gummed up and a bit corroded, but no obvious numbers. More like proof marks. The rimmed brass had something that looked like a triangle and then a couple of slashed lines. I’d probably recognize them if I saw another similar image of them. Will do some googling.

    Here are a couple of places to look for head stamps:

    International Ammunition Association
    http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=headstampcodes

    La Asociación Española de Coleccionistas de Cartuchería (AECC) in Spanish and undergoing changes but the best photographs of head stamps I have found
    http://www.municion.org/
     

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