WWII era woodies

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inherited a baggy of about 40 rounds of WW2 era .303 training ammo with wooden bullets, along with some blanks. does anybody know if these are of any value to collectors?
or should i just pull the wood [doh! that doesn't sound right...] and use the brass for reloads?
 
It really depends on condition, headstamp, and wood color to determine rarity and value. They're odd enough to be collectible, but value is another thing. As to reloading, blanks are often made using substandard or reject cases. Generally not a good practice to use blank brass for bulleted loads.
 
jonnyc said:
It really depends on condition, headstamp, and wood color to determine rarity and value. They're odd enough to be collectible, but value is another thing. As to reloading, blanks are often made using substandard or reject cases. Generally not a good practice to use blank brass for bulleted loads.
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I have never heard of this. Can you provide a source?
 
Can you post the headstamp please?

Wood bulleted .303 inch blanks of that vintage are uncommon and collectable.

Regards
TonyE
 
TonyE said:
Can you post the headstamp please?

Wood bulleted .303 inch blanks of that vintage are uncommon and collectable.

Regards
TonyE
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here ya go Tony:

the woodies are L10Z K, K28 V11, SR 44 BV11Z, G16 V1, KYNOCH LEWIS, KYNOCH BREN, KYNOCH VICKERS, *RG 44 Vll, CP 43 Vll, K1931 Vll, RG 44 *ll, K5 43 BVllZ, CP 44 Vll, K.43 Gll, K.60 L10Z, K60 L10Z, RG 57 L10Z,
RAL 39 L Vll [that A is actually an arrow pointing up, but i can't type one. same as the A designations below]

these are blanks:
2 are crimped RAL 41 H1Z, BAE 41 H1Z,
the rest have what appeals to be a laquered disc as a seal RG 68 L10Z, RG 67 L10Z, RG 63 L10Z, RG 61 L10Z, RG 60 L10Z, BAE 42 H1Z, BAL 17 Vll, RAL 35 H1Z, E 17 Vll, RAL 37 H1Z, RAL 1942 H ll, RAL 42 H1Z, RAL 40 H1Z, RAL 1939 H1Z, R 17 L Vll, E 18 Vll, R 16 L Vll,
 
The "KYNOCH LEWIS" is rather scarce I believe. I've looked but I don't think I've ever seen one. Good round.
 
As jonnyc says, the Kynoch "LEWIS" is scarcer than the "VICKERS" or "BREN" headstamps, but even those are quite nice.

The only original wood bulleted rounds are the "K L10Z" (which is a quite common commercial/contract headstamp) and "R/|\L 39 LVII" which is a wood bulleted blank designed for the Vickers gun. The wood bullet was filed with copper oxide dust to give it weight but it was unsuccessful. A quite scarce round these days.

The rest are all reloads based on all sorts of cases, ball, tracer, incendiary, grenade etc, probably reloaded for film work.

Regards
TonyE
 
TonyE said:
As jonnyc says, the Kynoch "LEWIS" is scarcer than the "VICKERS" or "BREN" headstamps, but even those are quite nice.

The only original wood bulleted rounds are the "K L10Z" (which is a quite common commercial/contract headstamp) and "R/|\L 39 LVII" which is a wood bulleted blank designed for the Vickers gun. The wood bullet was filed with copper oxide dust to give it weight but it was unsuccessful. A quite scarce round these days.

The rest are all reloads based on all sorts of cases, ball, tracer, incendiary, grenade etc, probably reloaded for film work.

Regards
TonyE
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thanks tony and johnny. as mentioned, i'm not a collector. does anyone know of businesses or individuals who buy these, and what they're woth?
i appreciate your input folks. thanx again.
 
The open necked blanks with the top half blackened are Grenade Discharger H Mark I, whilst the ones fully blackened are Grenade Discharger H Mark II. The two with a rosette crimp but with the top half blackened are ordinary Blank L Mark V made from reject H Mark I cases.

Those marked L10Z with blue bullets are exactly that, Blank L Mark 10z for the Bren gun, whilst the LEWIS, VICKERS and BREN ones are Kynoch commercial film blanks.

The white wood bulleted blanks are probably Danish, made from all sorts of fired British rounds. The ones with the asterisk in the headstamp are definitely Danish reloads.

Regards
TonyE
 
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