Connecticut Cartrudge Corp. .45-75 brass

Howdy all,

I picked up a 10 round box of brand new turned .45-75 brass made by Connecticut Cartridge Corporation, nice and shiny and box is in excellent condition.

I found very little information about this company, probably defunct a long time, anyone here have any idea when these may have been made? Seems like brass for this cartridge/caliber is very difficult to find (outside of making them from .348WIN, and a few other cases), so how much is this worth? A you can probably glean from this post, I have neverseen this before and do not have a rifle that shoots it, but like to pick up deals on oddball stuff for trading or selling.

I've not heard of it. I am fortunate to have several hundred Jamison pieces.

I have some Jamison 2 R Lovell brass, nice quality stuff, any word if they will ever resume production?

Jamison is all done - The equipment and machinery have all been sold off

yes they are long gone. I have a box them in 50/70 cal. great brass.

Bummer, would love to have more of their 2R brass, have to keep an eye out.

Back to the original intent of my post. What is the approximate value of the. 45-75 brass I have?

I think they were around in late '50-'60's. Nor sure, just guessing. I have a few boxes of 43 Spanish. The necks are way too thick. The Lyman 439186 (?) Spanish bullet soft won't chamber. So. I consider them junk.
Yours may well be a better fit. As such, maybe worth $2-3 each easy I would guess.

I had some .43 Egyptian brass from the Connecticut Cartridge Company. It was 1965/66 or so. They dropped the specialty brass when they got a contract for .30 Carbine ammunition due to Vietnam(my understanding at that time?). They made many of the 'obsolete' calibers for the 'antique' military and odd sporting rifles that you could buy through the mail, mine was a Rolling Block .43 Egyptian.

Those shells were made early to mid '60's. I'm not sure of current value but think $3/each would sell. Check Gunbroker and see if any are for sale. They will probably be Jamison or Captech but will give you an idea. Buffalo Arms in Idaho sells obsolete brass also but inventory has been spotty the last few years. Maybe they would have a price though.

Thanks for the info guys!
What littlenI could find falls in with what you have said, they seemed to have been active in at least the early to mid 60's, then transitioned in .30 carbine ammo, barely any other info out there. Have to say though, these cases are very well made and finished, almost look like they were done on a CNC, but most likely it was all manual machining unless they had the money to buy specialty equipment.

They were part of the Hansen cartridge company back then.

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Originally Posted by JKH

Howdy all,

I picked up a 10 round box of brand new turned .45-75 brass made by Connecticut Cartridge Corporation, nice and shiny and box is in excellent condition.

I found very little information about this company, probably defunct a long time, anyone here have any idea when these may have been made? Seems like brass for this cartridge/caliber is very difficult to find (outside of making them from .348WIN, and a few other cases), so how much is this worth? A you can probably glean from this post, I have neverseen this before and do not have a rifle that shoots it, but like to pick up deals on oddball stuff for trading or selling.

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just curious - you say "turned Brass" is it proper dimension internally or just bored straight with extra thick walls (have seen plenty of 450/577 martini brass made that way)

I have some of the old CCC .43 Spanish brass cases and they are much thicker in the side walls than the Bertram brass. Most of the early Bertram .43 Spanish that I bought split the side of the cases on the first firing. I had bought them off of Mr. Huntington and he replaced every one of them. I haven't bought a Bertram case since and I don't know if they have improved their brass or not. If not, I consider it not worth the money. He also made me a custom neck sizer die based off 2 fired cases that had not been resized. james

Indian Joe,

They turned it straight wall, then sized it down, haven't measured wall thickness but wall thickness looks similar to drawn .45-70 cases.

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Originally Posted by JKH

Indian Joe,

They turned it straight wall, then sized it down, haven't measured wall thickness but wall thickness looks similar to drawn .45-70 cases.

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hmmm thanks - theres a lot could go wrong with that plan on my backyard gear also a huge amount of scrap turnings - 348 cases are easy and surely would have been available when this was done?

I imagine, but this is just a theory, that they made these for shooters that wanted properly head stamped brass, and also those that either didn't have the skills or wherewithal to convert. 348 brass.

Having converted .348, and 8mm Lee to .43 Swiss I could see the aversion to making these cases at home.

Yup, they did improve. I still have my 1st batch of no.2 musket, and the only cases I lost were through my own fault.