i have a massive collection and always wanted these 3...
2.7mm kolibri
3mm kolibri
4.25 Lilput
they are as rare as chicken teeth! ...picked up all 3 at the last gun show. woot!
edited to say this should qualify in this sub forum as they ARE pistol rounds.
Got pics?
Had to look it up - Kolibri is German for Hummingbird. According to Wikipedia the 2mm Kolibri was the smallest pistol/pistol round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2mm_Kolibri
Mustang
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Wow, wonder if some other local collection had gone to an estate sale or (the horror) a garage sale.
Congratulations .... those little guys are hard to come by .
If you can ... a photo of them and a few other "jewels" would be interesting !
Gary
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Pictures?
You’d better put them in their own velvet lined jewel box just so they won’t get lost! Congratulations on a great score. Were they all in the hands of one dealer with exotic cartridges, or were there three such dealers there at one show?
Froggie
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those three were in the hands of one guy at the wanamaker show in tulsa.....one guy out of 4400 tables.Originally Posted by Green Frog
will try to picture them tomorrow.
Congrats on your finds at Tulsa! KUDOS!
I just got my OGCA newsletter,, and in it,, was a story with pics of a pair of miniature guns,, AND some ammo that showed up at a recent show. A Russian "ring gun with 8 pinfire barrels,, and a semi-auto Kolibri pistol, with some ammo. The Kolibri is listed as a 2.7mm. If you wish,, I can send you the page out of my newsletter to add to your collection of stuff. It has some good pics,,,!
that would be fine! thank you!
and as as i agreed to ...here are the pictures !..........
gun pictured is at the claremore oklahoma museum...cartridges are on my desk!
left is 2.7mm kolibri
center is 3mm kolibri
right is 4.25mm lilput
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That's very cool, and thanks for posting them! Read about them over the years in various editions of COTW, but never seen. Also very cool to see confirmation that the 2.7 and 3mm are NOT the same cartridge, which I hear has been a debate topic in some circles.
How do the primers on those compare to a modern small pistol? That's a bit of cartridge lore I've never properly dug into, but clearly, a lot of WWI / WWII era stuff is not running on what we think of as "standard" primer diameters.
WWJMBD?
In the Land of Oz, we cast with wheel weight and 2% Tin, Man.
don't know how franz pfannl made the primers , but they are tiny!
my suspicion is that they are made to be like BERDAN style cases with 2 flash holes and a central case anvil. (again "suspicion") never seen one that was fired or apart.
but considering the time frame (circa 1914) BERDAN style primer were certainly in vogue throughout europe. seems logical to me.
Kolibri may be German for hummingbird. Interestingly Colibri is Spanish for hummingbird as well.
Jim
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