November 5th & 6th 2016 Premier Firearms Sale
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2016
Offered is an original pasteboard box. Label reads "10 Poultneys Patent Metallic Cartridges for Smith's Breech-Loading Carbine No. 1 .50-100 caliber, address, Poulney & Trimble Baltimore, Maryland, December 15th, 1863". This box dates tot he Civil War and original held cartridges for one of the most widely used weapons of the Great Conflict (1861 to 1865) and, given the fragile nature, few have survived.