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November 2008


A REM-UMC 43 Egyptian box.....

Here is a box of .43 Egyptian cartridges manufactured by Remington-UMC for use in their rolling block military rifles and carbines. These boxes show up far less often than their cousins, those pretty blue-labeled UMC boxes of .43 Spanish, which seem to appear every time you turn around. Oddly enough, most of the rolling block rifles that were ordered by Egypt were shipped from the Remington factory to France between 1870 and 1871 as a result of Egypt's inability to pay for them, and saw use in the Franco-Prussian War. This particular box of cartridges was made between about 1913 and 1916, after the rifles were made available to the public through military surplus dealers like Bannermans. Note that the cartridge illustrated on the label has a REM-UMC .43 EGYPT. headstamp, a detail that might be attributed to artistic license, since such a headstamp does not exist to my knowledge.

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The 15.43mm Prussian needle cartridge revisited......

On my July 2008 picture page, I discussed the 15.43 Prussian needle cartridge, also known as the Dreyse cartridge. I recently picked up several of the cylindrical wads into which the bullet is seated, and which contain in their base a small, black pellet of priming compound which is struck by the needle-like firing pin to set off the cartridge. The light section of the paper wrapper indicates where the wad is situated in the complete cartridge, while the darker portion shows the effects of the powder charge. These wads appear to be constructed of spiral-wrapped paper similar to the paper in the head of a paper-hulled shotgun shell. Approximately half the length of the bullet is down inside the paper wad when seated.

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