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I'd love to purchase a couple of cases of that vintage.

Steve E wrote:Shoot it! you might be surprised how good it is. It will be worth very little, may be 10p a round.
I am fortunate in that I have about 100 rnds of Royal Laboritories .303 Streamline and that is very collectible. To the right person £500+

if you can fimd a few cases of that 10p a round .303, then I expect you would be a very popular man! tongueout

I purchased nearly a full crate of 1944/45 dated 303, last year, i have opened one of the cellophane sealed boxes but i don't think i have the heart to shoot it. Luckily because there are several licence holders under one roof we get a generous ammunition allowance. I also have about 11 1918 dated cartridges, which are a mix of Birmingham metal and munitions company and government cartridge factory No3 (blackpole worcester) in my ammo cabinet. I did have a few more but i did use a few in my uneducated days. i think i will fire one more on a Autumn full bore shoot in about 4 years time out of my 1916 SMLE.

I also have a few live foil cased 577/450 martini Henry rounds that are around 135 years old in the cabinet, and they are definitely NOT for shooting.

What do you think this lot would be worth?

350 x mk 7 bandolier from 1960, unopened.

Keep a couple and shoot the rest. I wish I'd done that over the years but I only thought about it in the last few. When I first started with my SMLE my local dealer would sell me a 100 rounds (almost) and it invariably came in three different 32 boxes. Wish I'd kept one of each.

amyjane wrote:What do you think this lot would be worth?

350 x mk 7 bandolier from 1960, unopened.

As lovely as it is, it's just vintage .303 and there is a ton of it stashed around. I'm still picking up HXP and WW2 dated stuff for 40p a bang so in my opinion it's £150 which includes a tenner for the box, I'm sure you would get more elsewhere.

DanTheMan wrote:

amyjane wrote:As lovely as it is, it's just vintage .303 and there is a ton of it stashed around. I'm still picking up HXP and WW2 dated stuff for 40p a bang...

May I ask where from? That's a better price than S&B.

Charlie Muggins wrote:

DanTheMan wrote:

amyjane wrote:As lovely as it is, it's just vintage .303 and there is a ton of it stashed around. I'm still picking up HXP and WW2 dated stuff for 40p a bang...

May I ask where from? That's a better price than S&B.

Yup, it's from local club members and old re-enactors, just about everyone I speak to has a crate tucked away and when they sell their old 303 the ammo is spare. Last person I visited had two ammo cans of WW2 303 stashed alongside a WW2 Willys Jeep (very nice). Many historic rifle owners seem to have stockpiled cheap ammo then only shoot a few rounds each year. There have been several posts on here over the last year with people uncovering tins in lofts etc.....

Thanks Dan and sorry bnz41, I hope you did not mind me jumping on your thread!

As a collector (I am serious about it but not an anorak) value is relative, or what someone is prepared to pay.

My collection is educational, inert, and can be handled, but that said, I seldom pay for anything, prefering to make donations to H4H, or swap.

I pass spares onto Ovenpaa and others when I can and vise versa, but certainly to me the provinence of a round and it's design are far more important than its percieved value.

If I am honest, I cannot be arsed with having to lock a collection up either, which is why they all get the chop one way or tother (although I have stopped drilling cases with small tell tale holes in favour of simply marking them inert if I can).

So, sorry for hijacking this again...but if anyone has some live/pulled Mk6 or MK8, I would love a couple if we could come to some financial arrangement or otherwise.

An RFD friend recently told me that the amount of ammunition out there is amazing, people would rather stash it than hand it to my lot with the ensuing problems that carries.

Folk can be really generous, which is great as I only give away and never sell.