collectible powder cans and primer boxes

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I have a few empty cans of Hercules powder and some primer boxes. The cans are for Hercules 2400, Hercules Bullseye, and Hercules Reloder 7. The 2400 and bullseye cans are cardboard cylinders with the twist open tops. The Reloder 7 can is a small metal ca with the "U-PRESS-IT" top. All are 1 lb cans.

I also have two cans of IMR 4198. One yellow, one red.

For primers i have 7.5 small rifle and 9.5M magnum rifle Remington kleanbore, and 7.5 Remington, cci smsll rifle and federal magnum rifle.

I'll try to get pics up tomorrow.

Any value to anyone?
 
Here are the pics.
 

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Are you offering these for sale, trade, etc?
PM sent.

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Those are cool....I love vintage stuff!
Heck, I'm still loading bullseye and Hercules unique from cans like that
 
I still have some 2400 in containers like those. Also, some Power Pistol in similar containers. I reload with both of them.
 
OK, having looked into this at the annual cartridge collectors show in St. Louis, there basically is no market for old powder. The empty tins may have value, but once the powder starts breaking down it can eat out the metal and make the tin worthless. Use the powder, sell the tin separately for whatever you can get for it. A friend of mine has a whole case of DuPont Number 6 eight ounce tins. The tins are 50-60 years old. He wants to sell the tins for $15-25 each, but (dah) he can't find buyers. He gives me the powder which I store in glass jars and with which I reload 38 Special plinking rounds; which are quite smokey and sooty.
Primer boxes -- my thing -- are valuable to me to trace their development, both packaging and primer design, not to shoot or reload old cartridges to appear factory fresh. Someday I'll get up the initiative to test some 100+ year-old primers to see if they go bang (qualitative test) but until then I just look at the primer design and packaging. At the cartridge collectors show, I saw a pre-WW2 Remington box of non-mercuric (but not yet non-corrosive) 8 1/2 primers that would fill a whole in my collection. (I have the same box overstamped with non-corrosive and a later same style box printed with both non-mercuric and non-corrosive.) The seller wanted $16. I usually don't pay more than $2 for a old box of primers but offered him $2.50. He took that box home with him and he'll be back next year still trying to sell it for $16. The most I'd ever pay for an empty primer box is $1, and it better be a really good box for $1. Primer tins empty $5, open with correct primers (some people put recent pistol percussion caps in the tins to give the appearance of a full tin) $7.50, and unopened $10. I would make exceptions for rare boxes and tins, but its value to me is still for information on development of design and packaging.
For examples of my collection and what I do with it, see mdshooters.com, forum, reloading, and search on "dating" and "primers".
 
If I remember correctly, the rules for the St. Louis Cartridge Show state that powder cans have to be empty for safety rules. But then again it has been years since I read the rules because I am a .22 box collector.

There is one guy at the St Louis Show that has a display of antique reloading tools every year. Way cool.
 
Hey OP, I got no response from you after sending PM. I'm very interested in the Bullseye and Reloader 7 tin, also CCI box. Willing to pay cost for USPS flat rate box. Let me know what you think. PM me, please.
Thanks.

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Primer boxes -- my thing -- are valuable to me to trace their development, both packaging and primer design, not to shoot or reload old cartridges to appear factory fresh. Someday I'll get up the initiative to test some 100+ year-old primers to see if they go bang (qualitative test) but until then I just look at the primer design and packaging. At the cartridge collectors show, I saw a pre-WW2 Remington box of non-mercuric (but not yet non-corrosive) 8 1/2 primers that would fill a whole in my collection. (I have the same box overstamped with non-corrosive and a later same style box printed with both non-mercuric and non-corrosive.) The seller wanted $16. I usually don't pay more than $2 for a old box of primers but offered him $2.50. He took that box home with him and he'll be back next year still trying to sell it for $16. The most I'd ever pay for an empty primer box is $1, and it better be a really good box for $1. Primer tins empty $5, open with correct primers (some people put recent pistol percussion caps in the tins to give the appearance of a full tin) $7.50, and unopened $10. I would make exceptions for rare boxes and tins, but its value to me is still for information on development of design and packaging.
For examples of my collection and what I do with it, see mdshooters.com, forum, reloading, and search on "dating" and "primers".

I must have no fewer than 50 powder cans, containers, fiber drums and paper sacks and then there are those primer containers, a few must be old because the look like small snuff cans and a few are made of wood. And then there are the primers with the dome/rounded head. I also have the priming tool for installing round headed primers. I heard someone say the round headed primers was the beginning of the old saying about 'flattening the primer'. And then I thought there has to be something about core hole plugs, freeze plugs and welch plugs a reloader does not understand.

F. Guffey
 
Since this is here...i just ran across an old tray of Peters rifle primers, paper box and wraper wood dividers, if anybody wants.
 
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