15mm LE MAT REVOLVER

The Le Mat was designed by Dr. Jean Alexandre François Le Mat (1824 – 1895), who received a patent in 1856 for a revolver with a 9-shot cylinder that revolves around a separate central short-barrelled shotgun and was also known as the "Grape Shot Revolver." Le Mat was...

13mm GYROJET

Gyrojets were developed in the mid 1960’s by Robert Mainhardt and Arthur Biehl, founders of MBAssociates. Friend and fellow collector Mel Carpenter wrote a comprehensive book about the history and development of the Gyrojet, called AN INTRODUCTION TO MBA GYROJETS AND...

12mm SPIRLET

Dating from around 1894 and used in the revolver from A. Spirlet & Cie., Liege, Belgium. The Spirlet revolvers were based on the Galand system, however they used a top break design with a star extractor that put them way ahead of their time. (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref....

12mm SERPETTE

Relatively modern (1970’s in all probability) cartridge based on an old design for the Galand reloadable cases where the bullet is screwed into the case on reloading and upon firing the thread is stripped away from the bullet. The 12mm Serpette was made by a...

12mm PIDAULT & CORDIER

from Aaron Newcomer's website: What is commonly known as the Raphael cartridge was initially patented by a Frenchman named Charles Carroll Tevis in 1856. He was associated with a man named Pidault Martial and together they improved the patent and released the first...

12mm PERRIN

The patent for the Perrin revolver was granted on the 5th of October 1859 as opposed to the Galand Revolver which was launched in 1868. The rim thickness on the Perrin cartridge is also about 1/3rd thicker than the Galand cartridge. Below is a table with measurements...

12mm GALAND

The 12mm Galand was designed and patented in by Charles-François Galand (1832–1900), a French gunsmith in 1868 as opposed to the 12mm Perrin that was designed in 1859. The rim thickness of the Galand differs from the Perrin and the two are not interchangeable. (See...

12mm FRENCH NAVY

A few years before the French adoption of the Mle 1873 Revolver, the Navy abandoned the pinfire system in favour of the center-fire revolver in the form of the Lefaucheaux Mle 1870 revolver. After that the Navy converted all remaining Mle 1858 Lefaucheaux pinfire...

12mm DEVISME

Louis-François Devisme was known for his exceptional quality firearms during the 19th century, which are highly sought after, even today. He received numerous awards over a thirty year period, from his first award for firearms design and manufacture at the 1834 Paris...

11.5 X 35 WERDER M69

Cartridge developed around 1869 for use in both the Werder M69 Pistol as well as the Werder Carbine developed by Johann Ludwig Werder and based on his rifle design from 1868. It used a falling block design and was one of the first center-fire handguns to be adopted by...

11.5mm ROTH

   This is the exceedingly rare 11.5 mm Roth-Krnka experimental made by George Roth for the British auto-pistol trials (c. 1901-1903). The trials are described in the Minutes of the Small Arms Committee, from the Royal Armouries Library at Leeds as well as...

11.5mm MONTENEGRIN GASSER

   This is described as the 11.5x36R Montenegrin Gasser that was used in a heavy 6-shot Gasser system revolver. This cartridge was listed in the 1909 SFM catalogue as the “11.5mm Montenegrin Gasser”. The ‘standard’ 11.3m Gasser M.1870 revolver has a tapered...

11.35mm SCHOUBOE

The 11.35mm Schouboe is a simple blowback pistol with a non-exposed hammer and was designed by Jens Theodor Suhr Schouboe, - better known for his work on the Madsen light machine gun - during 1903 and was originally designed as a pocket pistol chambered in 32 ACP but...

11.3 X 36R GASSER M.70

The 11.3x36R Gasser is a downgraded version of the 11mm Werndl M.67 Carbine cartridge and is known as the 11.3x36R M1870 Revolver Patrone that was adopted by the Austo-Hungerian Army in August 1870. This huge revolver was developed in 1869 by gunsmith Leopold Gasser...

11mm SWEDISH ORDNANCE m/71

When the Swedish Army upgraded from pinfire to center-fire, their existing Lefaucheaux revolvers were converted and adopted as the Lefaucheux – Francotte Cavalry model 1871. The m/71 revolver was invented by August Hagstrom (1817-1901) and was only used by Sweden and...

11mm MAUSER

I have not been able to find any information on this cartridge. Erlmeier, Brandt just gives a description of a cartridge for a Mauser Revolver of unknown construction that was in all probability a short-lived experimental design (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref. 162C)....

11mm JAVELLE

The 11mm Javelle is a horizontal pinfire cartridge and was designed by Michel Javelle in the late 1850’s to early 1860’s. This is the third variation; the other two had the base of the pin holder visible and flush with the bottom of the case. The cartridge case is...

11mm GREEK ORDNANCE M.1874

The Greek Army adopted the M1873 Chamelot-Delvigne Revolver and was in use by them until the beginning of World War 2. Ammunition was originally provided by France, but later orders were done by Georg Roth as well as by the Greek Powder and Cartridge Company that was...

11mm FRENCH Mle.1873

With the adoption of the 11mm Lefaucheux M-1858 Pinfire Revolver the French Navy became the first military organization to adopt a self-contained metallic cartridge handgun for general issue and use. After their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 the French...

11mm DEVISME

Louis-François Devisme was known for his exceptional quality firearms during the 19th century, which are highly sought after, even today. He received numerous awards over a thirty year period, from his first award for firearms design and manufacture at the 1834 Paris...

11mm DEVILLERS MOCK DUEL

Developed by a French medical doctor, Dr Paul Devilliers during the early 1900’s when the sport of duelling was still practiced. His invention was filed under patent N° 312320 whereby a spherical ball made of wax, tallow and Barium Sulphate was inserted in a cartridge...

10.8mm MONTENEGRIN No. 4

This cartridge is listed as the 10.8mm Montenegrin No.4 Revolver in Erlmeier, Brandt as Ref. 157. From an earlier IAA Forum discussion however this cartridge has been identified as an early long cased, inside lubricated 44 Webley by UMC. It will be listed here for...

10.6mm SCHULHOF

This was a design by Josef Schulhof (1824 - 1890), gunmaker from Vienna. He patented a repeating rifle in 1882 and was credited with having developed several types of repeating pistols around 1884. All required a manual movement to chamber and discharge the cartridge....

10mm SURABAYA

There is very little info available on this cartridge, except for some discussion on the IAA Forum. The Two KNIL (Koningklike Nederlandse Indische Leger) plants in Java (Bandoeng & Soerabaya) both assembled and reloaded ammunition for the KNIL, amongst others...

10mm MAUSER LONG

Cartridge for an experimental German revolver. The headstamp H.EHRMANN & C x CARLSRUHE x dates this as a very early development as the Ehrmann factory ceased operations in 1882. This cartridge was also only shown in the 1882 Lorenz Export catalogue. (Erlmeier,...

10mm MARS

This is a Kynamco manufactured cartridge for collectors. Apparently the largest of the metric caliber Mars experimental cartridges for the H.W. Gabbett-Fairfax designed pistols ca. 1900. (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref. 146).    

10mm MAGNUM

The 10mm Magnum is an extended length version of the 10mm Auto and was developed as a factory offered cartridge in the Automag IV pistol around 1992 by ex-California based AMT (Arcadia Machine & Tool Inc), which was later bought by IAI (Irwindale Arms Inc). The...

10mm GAUPILLAT

There is very little information available about the 10mm Gaupillat except a note from Erlmeier, Brandt stating that it was discovered at the 1975 Lucerne Arms show in a box labelled: Nombre 25 – Calibre 10m/m – Cartouches pour Revolvers a percussion centrale. It...

10mm CENTAUR

The idea of necking the 45 ACP down to 10mm is not a new idea. During the early 90’s, long before the development of the 40 SUPER, Charles Petty who was a respected gun-writer developed the 10mm Centaur together with Ray Herriott who was the designer and Richard Beebe...

10mm BERGMANN M.1901

Theodor Bergman (1850 – 1931) was a German industrialist who had a keen interest in firearms and developed a line of pistols during the late 1890’s to early 1900’s, although his business dealings were more toward bicycles and the then newly developed automobile. It is...