not what i thought i bought, what is it???

[hornsurgeon]

i bought an auction on evilbay thinking it was swaging dies,etc. i picked it up today and have no clue what i got. i think it is an old hand loading system that doesn't use a press, like a lee loader. it came with a grigsby case trimmer, so maybe grigsby? any ideas on what this is?

[hornsurgeon]

here is a pic of a "loading die" with a 38 special case in it.

[hornsurgeon]

here is a pic of a 270 in a "seat die"???

[hornsurgeon]

here is some kind of primer seater

[hornsurgeon]

and this has threads to fit a standard loading press.

any ideas?

[yondering]

here is some kind of primer seater

The piece on the left in your primer seater picture looks like a shellholder for the old CH reloading presses. My Dunbar press used those.

[Buckshot]

..............So what did the E-Bay add say they were, or did they even guess? There are a lot of parts and do-dads isn't there? Sure looks like swage dies at first glance. They could be draw dies, form dies, punch dies, or maybe case altering/forming stuff or a mish mash of various stuff a guy of wide interest made or had made. No names or other ID info I take it?

.................Buckshot

[hornsurgeon]

ebay add had no help, and i'm not complaining about the seller. i'm just wondering what i ended up with. no numbers or letters of anytype on anything. when i received them, the 38case was in that die, and the LOADED 270 was in that one. i have been all over the internet with no luck finding anything like this. they just seem to nice to be home made, but who knows.

[mikenbarb]

PM sent. Im interested in buying some of the parts if you want to part with them.

[MarkK]

here is some kind of primer seater

Looks like CH but it might fit on my Hollywood press.

[hornsurgeon]

so we have the shell holder and primer stuff id'd, what about the rest? any ideas?

[mikenbarb]

Some others look like shotshell decappers for presses and close ups of the items would help alot to see what they are.

[MtGun44]

The "primer seater" appears to be a Hollywood shell holder and
primer seater stem. I have a 12 holer turret (HUGE thing!) that looks just
like that. Maybe the other parts are related, not sure.

Bill

[hornsurgeon]

ok afterhours of trying this piece on that piece, i determined all the punches that look like they would be used on a shotgun reloader screw onto the piece threaded to fit a standard press.

[PatMarlin]

I'm not sure, but I think the picture on the bottom maybe Andrew Jackson.

I think that particular note used to be worth about a $100, but now is down to about a buck if I remember correctly-

May want to put that back on eBay and sell whilst you still can.

[mikenbarb]

AHH HAAAA!!! I think that after looking again that the shotshell parts would be for a L.E. Wilson or a C&H shotgun die set. They look to be the top caps for the dies, Primer decap rods and pins, case sizing parts and a couple others. A close up of them all would be helpful to determine exactly what they are and what brand their made for. I know if its for either die set their worth a couple bucks because they always the first things to break on them and their hard to come by in good shape.

[hornsurgeon]

i'm not sure thay are for a shotgun press. here are the parts that seem to go together, next to a 22 box for size.

[hornsurgeon]

the tapered things(punches?) screw onto the large threaded spindle.