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appeared to be a copper cup over a tinsel thin brass cup with a pin-head sized lump of fulminate under the brass on the strike surface?

Dad, my favorite Uncle, and I shot many thousand of these when I was a tween/teen (early-late '70s) but I can't remember who made them (seems RWS perhaps?), and i'm wondering if they're still produced.
 
I have an old tin of percussion caps that are like that.

The label says:

J. GOLDMARK'S PERCUSSION CAPS
100
FOIL LINED

F.L.

CENTER FIRE
STAYNLESS

Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
Division of Olin Industries Inc

MADE IN UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

NEW HAVEN, CONN U.S.A.
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The foil lining in these appears to be tin or some other "white" metal.

I got these with a bunch of other accessories in a hunters bag which I bought at a gun show.

I don't have any idea how old they are but I found that Olin bought Winchester in 1931, so they must be newer than that.

Doing a bit of digging on the web I see J. Goldmark's caps date back to around 1855 if not earlier.
 
yessir.....that's the ones !

different tin/probably different brand though

the ones we always had (I remember them being German ) were so strong that they would propel a .451 ball from a '51 Colt copy sans powder.
 
Rifleman1776 said:
Rifleman1776 said:
There were a lot of different caps over the years. I had, may still have, some that were plastic. They came in a red plastic 'tin'. Will have to dig around in my 'stuff' boxes.


Did a lot of digging. Couldn't find them. :(
I've got a red plastic 'tin' of caps: Dixie Gunworks, Union City, TN. Extra Hot #11

Also found a yellow steel tin with black letters: Leon Beaux - made in Italy. These are brass caps & are thicker, heavier metal than in use today.

I also had some older Remington caps with the gold foil liner & tiny dot of priming compound - 3 tins from early 1980's - all completely dead.
 

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