1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
05-29-2007, 01:47 PM
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
car·touche or car·touch
(kär-tōōsh') Pronunciation Key
n. A heavy paper cartridge case.
[French, from Italian cartoccio, paper cornet, from carta, card, paper; see carton.]
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Wikipedia and dictionary.com didn't have results for the other two in question and that one word being French was really enough to convince me. I don't really see French and German being on the same box from that time period?
(kär-tōōsh') Pronunciation Key n. A heavy paper cartridge case.
[French, from Italian cartoccio, paper cornet, from carta, card, paper; see carton.]
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Wikipedia and dictionary.com didn't have results for the other two in question and that one word being French was really enough to convince me. I don't really see French and German being on the same box from that time period?
05-29-2007, 01:50 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
I doubt it, since I don't think the French would have had time to make ammo during the Vichy government (The Nazi occupation government), since France would have had plenty of old ammo, plus, the ammo box didn't have any swaztika on it.
05-29-2007, 02:58 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
Never seen that before, but I have fired a box of 7.62x39 ammo, from 1939, and it was French!
It couldn't have been 1939 for year of manufacture, the 7.62x39 cartridge didn't come about until 1943.
Do you have any pictures of the box? 'Metalfabrikken' sounds Scandinavian.
05-29-2007, 03:18 PM
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
ORIGINAL: younggun308
Never seen that before, but I have fired a box of 7.62x39 ammo, from 1939, and it was French! I saw the empty cardboard box in the ammo case, and when I read it, I thought it was funny that 60-year old ammo shot so well as it did!
It said something like
"Metalfabrikken
(gibberish) 7.62x39 cartouche
Anul 1939"
It looked like any old cardboard box, I wonder if any of you guys know if it was worth anything?
Never seen that before, but I have fired a box of 7.62x39 ammo, from 1939, and it was French! I saw the empty cardboard box in the ammo case, and when I read it, I thought it was funny that 60-year old ammo shot so well as it did!
It said something like
"Metalfabrikken
(gibberish) 7.62x39 cartouche
Anul 1939"
It looked like any old cardboard box, I wonder if any of you guys know if it was worth anything?
In addition, I do not believe that cartridge was ever made in France! What did you shoot it in??
"Metalfabrikken" sound Swedish or Norwegian to me!
05-29-2007, 07:57 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
ORIGINAL: younggun308
I doubt it, since I don't think the French would have had time to make ammo during the Vichy government (The Nazi occupation government), since France would have had plenty of old ammo, plus, the ammo box didn't have any swaztika on it.
I doubt it, since I don't think the French would have had time to make ammo during the Vichy government (The Nazi occupation government), since France would have had plenty of old ammo, plus, the ammo box didn't have any swaztika on it.
The French should have tons and tons of surplus ammo as I dont think they ever used any during the war..
05-29-2007, 08:43 PM
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
ORIGINAL: Doe Dumper
The French should have tons and tons of surplus ammo as I dont think they ever used any during the war..
The French should have tons and tons of surplus ammo as I dont think they ever used any during the war..
05-30-2007, 06:48 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
Well, whatever it was, we shot it out of an SKS.
I don't have a pic of the box, it's just a plain cardboard box with absolutely no emblems on it.
Just mainly what I wrote it said.
It did say "Anul 1939", on the end, so I supposed it was from the year 1939, but "Anul", isn't French, or German."Cartouche", is French, though, maybe it's from some colony that was French? But, then again, there's the problem of the year the 7.62x39 cartridge came out.
I don't have a pic of the box, it's just a plain cardboard box with absolutely no emblems on it.
Just mainly what I wrote it said.
It did say "Anul 1939", on the end, so I supposed it was from the year 1939, but "Anul", isn't French, or German."Cartouche", is French, though, maybe it's from some colony that was French? But, then again, there's the problem of the year the 7.62x39 cartridge came out.
