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12mm Horizontal Pinfire Cartridge

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Type: 12mm Horizontal Pinfire

Manufacturer: Jules Joseph Chaudun, Paris, France

Additional Info: This cartridge was most likely made by Jules Joseph Chaudun for some of the first centerfire (horizontal pinfire) guns Jean-Louis François Devisme made or converted. It was made somewhere around the late 1840s to 1850s. Chaudun would have labeled this as an 11mm cartridge.
12mm Horizontal Pinfire Cartridge
12mm Horizontal Pinfire Cartridge Base

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