Welcome to immediately’s Photograph of the Day! Right here we now have a set of Thompson submachinegun magazines. These, nevertheless, will not be simply any Tommy gun stick magazines. They’re 18-round Peters Thompson Birdshot magazines. Within the mid-Twenties the Peters ammunition firm had the brilliant concept to market 45 birdshot ammunition for Thompson machineguns. These bullets used cardboard or paper wrapping round a set of birdshot pellets and have been supposed for riot management in factories and civil unrest at giant. The Thompson birdshot bullets themselves have been longer than your run-of-the-mill 45 acp ball ammunition. this meant that the Peters firm additionally needed to market 18-round magazines that have been broad sufficient to comprise the cartridges accurately.
“Marketed with a watch in direction of riot management and jail inhabitants administration, the Peters-Thompson 45 Shot Cartridge masses a cardboard “capsule” of 120 pellets of #8 birdshot right into a double crimped 45 ACP casing. Although barely bigger than a regular 45 spherical, the one modification wanted to run the Peters-Thompson by way of Thompson’s SMGs and Carbines was a particular elongated journal, two of that are included on this lot. Very related in look to the usual journal, the shot journal is blued metal with the legend “PATENTED-AUG.-24-1920/FOR 18 SHOT CARTRIDGES/AUG.-24-1920-JAN.-11-1921″ stamped on the entrance.”
Lot 3557: Scarce Lot of Two 18-Spherical Peters-Thompson Birdshot Smg Journal. (n.d.). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved September 29, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/71/3557/scarce-lot-of-two-18round-petersthompson-birdshot-smg-magazine.
