Hello--Back again with further questions --still on 1883Reichrevolver--sorry, nearest I can get to a .44 Russian S&W---( live UK ) I recently obtained a round of ammunition from France it is an original Reich revolver round ?--I need help with headstamp reading it just has ---one star. then S. then-12. then-98. equally spaced around the rim? which is very thin with a raised primer, any help gratefully accepted, as on my previous questions
Many thanks
Reichrev

Sounds like you have an original cartridge. I believe 12 98 is the date of manufacture (December 1898) and the "S" signifies the Spandau Arsenal. PM sent with more info...

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Hello s&wchad
Many thanks for your reply--great news for me, I had no idea of meaning, now over moon
Regards
Reichrev

I would suggest you contact the "INTERNATIONAL AMMUNITION ASSOSIATION" website. The guys that haunt this site are some of the most knowledgable souls around. Just a note of interest. I once owned a Reich Revolver that had a WWII capture certifacate. Hard to imagine they were still in use in WWII.

Go to the website below:

MUNICION.ORG

Go to left hand column and click on "Fuego Central / CF".
Click on "10 a 11.4mm/.44"
Click on "10.6x25 R Aleman"

Your Spandau headstamp should be the last one pictured.

Hope this may be of help.

In the later days of WWII, the Germans were using anything they could find in the way of firearms, even obolete stuff that had been in storage for the last 50 years. Reichsrevolvers were not unusual GI war souvenir bring-backs from WWII. I remember seeing many of them at gun shows of the 1960s and 70s, when they were selling for very little.