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Picture Page December 2015 Please note: Unless otherwise indicated, the pictures on this web site are my property, and should not be used by anyone without my permission. Some Czarist Russian 7.62 x 54R cartridges.......
All of these cartridges had been buried for one hundred
years, more or less, and are in remarkably good condition considering. Headstamps
of some are a bit worn, and trying to photograph them so that they were
legible took some effort, and in some cases fell a little short,. Most of these have headstamps made up of four
elements or sets of characters, positioned at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. On
these, a two digit production year is at 12 o'clock, a single Cyrillic
letter or symbol for the brass producer is at 3 o'clock, a roman numeral for the
trimester of
The headstamp shown to the left, the earliest example that was in the group I received, indicates that the cartridge was made during the last trimester (September through December) of 1897; the case was made by the unknown brass maker designated by the Greek letter phi, and it was loaded at the Lugansk Patronny Zavod (Lugansk ammunition factory) designated by the Cyrillic letter for L. The Lugansk ammunition factory was in the Ukraine and commenced production of Mosin-Nagant ammunition in 1895. .
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Produced at the Petersburg factory in the third trimester
of 1904, this cartridge was made with brass from the supplier designated by
the the Cyrillic letter K, which is K in English as well, and is thought to
represent the Kolchugin metal works in Kolchugino, Russia. This company was
formed in 1871 and is better
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This is the least legible of the headstamps, showing the corrosive effects that could result from the cartridge having been in the ground for so long. Again a product of the Petersburg factory, it was made in the third trimester of 1905. The brass supplier designation was omitted, resulting in a three element headstamp. The Roman numeral III is clearly visible at the 6 o'clock position, the 05 can just be made out at about the 2:30 position, and the letter designating Petersburg can be made out at about the 10:30 position. . .
Apparently, the change to the three element 1905 headstamp above wasn't a permanent change, as shown by this Petersburg cartridge made in the following trimester (the first trimester of 1906), which again has the raised four element headstamp with brass supplier's designation the Cyrillic letter P (Rozenkrants) again. . . . .
This cartridge has just two elements in the headstamp, which indicates production at the Tulskiy Patronniy Zavod (Tula cartridge factory) in Tula, Russia in 1904. This factory probably began production of the 7.62x54R cartridge in 1893. . . . .
Included among the dug cases were several that were imported to Czarist Russia from other countries. This 1905 case is thought to have been made by Hirtenberger in Austria. The two dots at 3 o'clock have some meaning that I am not aware of. . . . . .
The source of this 1906 cartridge not certain; one source indicates that it is Swiss and made by Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik, while another indicates that the 'B' is the Cyrillic V, and indicates it was made in Budapest, Hungary by Manfred Weiss. . . . . . .
This 1906 cartridge was made by Deutsche Waffen-u. Munitionsfabriken A.-G. in Karlsruhe, Germany. . . . . . It is interesting to speculate how these cartridges may have come to be where they were dug up in St. Petersburg, Russia. A number of revolutions occurred in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The first of these was the Revolution of 1905, a series of strikes, riots, mutinies, and assassinations directed at the Czarist autocracy, which commenced on January 9th, 1905 when troops opened fire on a group of peaceful workers marching to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to present a petition to Czar Nicholas II. Between 200 and 1000 died as a result; the massacre was hereafter referred to as Bloody Sunday. Strikes continued afterwards, centered on St. Petersburg and other industrial centers. The revolution continued until April 23rd, 1906, with the institution of a constitution and the formation of an elected group of representatives called the Duma. . . Sources: Wikipedia-Revolution of 1905- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905 7.62x54r.net, 7.62x54r Ammunition Identification, http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmoID.htm International Ammunition Association, Cartridge Forum discussion, April 2010, http://iaaforum.org/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8380&hilit=7.62x53r+dug+in+the+ukrane&start=0 Wiipedia - photo of the Russian tea glass holders - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolchugino,_Vladimir_Oblast Thanks to Bob Taylor for information regarding brass suppliers and for adding the uncertainty regarding the origin of the 'B' headstamped carttridge.
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