Mystery Shot; what is it?

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I have five rounds of paper-hulled Dominion "meteor" 12 gauge shells. Heck of a fancy brass on these too! And crimped like a modern shotgun shell. But unlike everything else from that era I have; no load information.

I have tons of other old shells now and they say the shot size right on them. Not these things.

Any ideas? I'd be very interested in your thoughts.
 
Yeah, the boxes can be worth a fortune for some reason. I have many many old
boxes, sadly back in the day we wrote on the box what reloads were in them. Lol

still have DuPont 20 and 12 gauge hull boxes. And some Remington/DuPont boxes as well, all with big marker writing on them. However now that my pops has passed, they mean more to me than any amount of $$.
 
3macs1 said:
Brass like these by any chance??
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Exactly like that! Reminds me of the metal tops that plastic pop bottles had for years.

I have a bunch of old boxes too, some are pretty rough though; the Canuck and Dominion ones basically split on the glued seam as soon as I poured the odd assortment of shells out. I had no idea the rest were worth money. A friend suggested I take them all and frame them, flat. I gotta admit they are pretty. Some newer ones I split myself to do just that, but the older ones, the glue was gone or just about when I got them.
 
ilikeoldguns said:
Exactly like that! Reminds me of the metal tops that plastic pop bottles had for years.

I have a bunch of old boxes too, some are pretty rough though; the Canuck and Dominion ones basically split on the glued seam as soon as I poured the odd assortment of shells out. I had no idea the rest were worth money. A friend suggested I take them all and frame them, flat. I gotta admit they are pretty. Some newer ones I split myself to do just that, but the older ones, the glue was gone or just about when I got them.
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Shells are really not worth anything other than may be 5.00 a box. Boxes if they are two piece design and in good shape will bring some dollars not so much in 12ga but the other smaller gauges for sure. Also being canadian boxes there is way less of a following so dollars drop. Have no idea what type of boxes or condition to comment further but if you take some time and check them out on the internet it will give you a good idea if any of yours are worth selling to a collector
Cheers
 
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