Vintage reloading tools?
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I think the top two are wad starters for reloading all-brass shot-shells.
Place the bottom flared end over the primed and charged brass case.
Place the over powder wad and filler wad(s) into the top of the tube (wider flared end). Use the plunger to push the wads down and into the shell and firmly on top of the BP powder load.
You can find them pictured with sets of antique shotshell reloading tools. A few different styles. Commercialy and home-made.
The bottom tool,I don't know. doesn't look as old. Appears to be a casting mould for a simple cylindrical slug.
Cast, cut off the sprue and knock out the slug by bumping the mould on the wooden surface.
Perhaps for use in swaging bullets as the bullet 'slug' itself or as a core in a jacketed bullet. Certainly a cheap way to make a mould for that simple configuration.
The cut-off plate seems to have a duel purpose as one end looks like a screwdriver blade , the other some sort of spanner blade.
Maybe I'm way off.
Place the bottom flared end over the primed and charged brass case.
Place the over powder wad and filler wad(s) into the top of the tube (wider flared end). Use the plunger to push the wads down and into the shell and firmly on top of the BP powder load.
You can find them pictured with sets of antique shotshell reloading tools. A few different styles. Commercialy and home-made.
The bottom tool,I don't know. doesn't look as old. Appears to be a casting mould for a simple cylindrical slug.
Cast, cut off the sprue and knock out the slug by bumping the mould on the wooden surface.
Perhaps for use in swaging bullets as the bullet 'slug' itself or as a core in a jacketed bullet. Certainly a cheap way to make a mould for that simple configuration.
The cut-off plate seems to have a duel purpose as one end looks like a screwdriver blade , the other some sort of spanner blade.
Maybe I'm way off.
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