Original U.S. Indian Wars Scarce M1874 Revolver Cartridge Box with Embossed US Antique Winchesters including collecting taxes

including collecting taxes

These are ratchet catch closing Steel Collars welded to pointed and predrilled steel mounting bar intended to be nailed to a tree

captured and veteran-painted

The barrel tang is dated faintly with 1818

Original U.S. Indian Wars Scarce M1874 Revolver Cartridge Box with Embossed US Antique Winchesters including collecting taxesOriginal Item. Only One Available. The introduction of metallic cartridge revolvers in the Army meant rethinking the pistol cartridge box. An 1872 board recommended simply using the infantry cap box to hold twelve pistol cartridges. An 1873 board, whose findings were published in an 1874 Ordnance Memorandum recommended a pattern submitted by Dyer using a sheepskin lining, but the large number of Civil War cap boxes on hand that could be cheaply