Interesting Ideal mould

[trooperdan]

LGS must have bought out an estate sale, had many old cans of powder, old beautiful .30-06 brass headstamped REM UMC, moulds, etc.
I picked up 5 moulds, one of them an Ideal 2C, one cavity is 257283 and the other is 257325. Never have seen a 2c with different designs before! Also got a Cramer 3C 56A SB and a Lachmiller 2c 311175 FN. Sadly the Cramer has some rust in the cavity and is slated for electronic cleaning. Only powder I bought was a sealed 3 pound keg of AL-5 for $30. Bought it as much for nostalgial as anything else, that was one of the first powders I started loading with back in 1963.
Also had some lead, said .40 a pound. There was a 10 # chunk of lino, 10 # of pure lead and 6 # of bars that might be 60/40 or tin, not sure, 50 # in all $20 for all of it.

[ElDorado]

Sounds like a good haul. I've seen those Ideal moulds with different cavities on ebay from time to time. I always thought that they were custom orders. They're usually like yours, two different designs of the same caliber.

[rintinglen]

Up until the 1970's, Lyman would make just about anything you were willing to pay for. I have a 452-374, 452-423 double cavity and once bid on a 4 cavity mold that had 4 different 30 caliber designs. I have seen a couple that had a rifle boolit design and a pistol boolit design in the same blocks. They still pop up from time to time.

[NeuseRvrRat]

this didn't happen to be at Ed's in Vass, did it?

[trooperdan]

It was indeed at Ed's! Still a LOT of powder, brass and Lee molds left when I was there.