WWI Ammunition
My mother found a box of copper-tipped bullets in the original cardboard box for my great grandfather (her grandfather's) service weapon in a drawer not too long ago.
I have a couple of questions about it.
1. I know that the Geneva convention outlawed the copper tipped bullets due to their tendncy to spread upon impact-but these bullets had to belong to his service gun because he did not own any others, so does that mean they were issued before?
and 2. Where can I go to find accurate pricing of such ammunition for purposes of sale?
Thanks
I have a couple of questions about it.
1. I know that the Geneva convention outlawed the copper tipped bullets due to their tendncy to spread upon impact-but these bullets had to belong to his service gun because he did not own any others, so does that mean they were issued before?
and 2. Where can I go to find accurate pricing of such ammunition for purposes of sale?
Thanks
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You will burn forever for selling family heirlooms, regardless of what they are really worth.
If there are none available for auction on the gunbroker auction site (as determined by appropriate searches) do a refined search, see if any has sold in the last few months. If none still observed for sale, keep watching for a month or so.
If there are no listings for them, list them yourself on gunbroker auction, set the opening for one cent each, but set the reserve for $100 per round. Let it run a few times. If you don't get a few bidders, then relist the box, set the opening for $1.00 for the box, and a reserve of $100.00.
After doing this a few (or several) times, you will have many people contact you who probably know what the ammo is really worth. Discuss it with them. The ammo has sat in a drawer for 90 years, why try to sell them in a week?
May be, they would bring $1.00 each at a garage sale. I've seen people who pay $1.00 for a steel penny at garage sales. Make up some story to the garage sale shoppers about how Grandpa killed a few Jerry's using those rounds, you might get $5.00 each for them.
Look real close, if you see an image of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, on any of the corrosion on any of the rounds, list that bullet on ebay (after it has been properly decomissioned to meet ebay requirements) it may bring 50 or 60K, or more.
That is, if they are worth much.
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1) it was the Hague convention, not Geneva.
2) what was prohibited was "expanding" bullets, IE hollow points and soft points (lead exposed types)
3) While the US generaly follows the HC rules, we are not a signatory to the rules (means we are not bound by the HC rules).
4) Standard FMJ military rounds are not worth a whole lot on the collector market, the intact box (full) in "new" condition is where any value would lay, and as a uneducated guess $20 would be on the high end of the value range (if anyone has a better idea of value, feel free to correct me).
As another poster has often told me "old does not mean rare or valuable"
Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.0 -
What caliber are they? Pistol or rifle?
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf0 -
If you can tell us what the headstamp (the writing & numbers on the bottom of the cartridge) is, we can tell you a lot more about what you have. 0
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