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Picture Page September 2011 A US Cartridge Co .410 'All Brass' box....
Here's a colorful little two-piece box of US Cartridge Company All-Brass
.410 shotgun shells. The All-Brass shell was introduced by the company in
1922 as an alternative to the paper hulled .410 shell, offering 'positive
insurance against swelling, cut-offs, unsatisfactory crimps and the other
weaknesses inherent in so small a shell if made with a paper case'. The
Lowell, Massachusetts address on this box indicates that it was made
sometime prior to 1926, when Winchester assumed production of the US
Cartridge Company line of cartridges and shotgun shells and the boxes showed
a New York address. The shell illustrated on this box is marked 'Selby
Loads'. Selby Smelting and Lead Company was an affillite of the National
Lead
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Two .40 S&W Automatic cartridge case draw sets...
I recently purchased a number of draw sets from a former firearms and tool mark examiner who collected while touring ammunition manufacturing plants over the course of his career. I've included here pictures of two relatively complete draw sets, from
the early draws to the finished (or nearly finished) case. The first of
these was made
by the Federal Cartridge Company and the second was made for the Canadian company Industries Valcartier, Inc,
possibly by Starline. What surprised me about both of these sets was how early in
the case forming process the headstamp is applied, which appears to occur at
the time the head is flattened or immediately thereafter. The last
case in
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Company,
which purchased 50% ownership of the US Cartridge Company in 1910.
Note that the back of the box is marked National Lead Co of California,
Agents, S.F.'.This and the Selby marked shell would most likely indicate
that this box of shells was made specifically for the National Lead Co. 
the
Federal set has received its final polishing, but does not yet have the
flash
hole drilled in the primer pocket; this apparently occurs as a final step at
Federal.
The IVI set, on the other hand, has the flash hole drilled just after the
extraction groove is cut and the rim is shaped, and prior to the case being
cut to length.