7.5 x 53.5mm Swiss wood blank model 1890/03
This cartridge is brass cased, with a brass primer and black primer seal. The case length conforms to the older 1889 ball cartridge. The “bullet” is green stained wood and secured in the case by coning at the mouth and a three segment crimp low down in the neck. The bullet/case juncture is waxed. I show various headstamps. Was this bullet “too fat” to fit the short lead into the rifling of the M1911 and later weapons?
