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The 9mm Luger Cartridge
Want List for 9mm Para (Luger) Cartridges
We are seeking examples of the headstamps and cartridges listed
below to further our research. We would be glad to purchase
specimens or can offer excellent trades for specimens we need.
9mm Luger/Parabellum Cartridge Wantlist

1.        Any Chamber Gauge
2.        Any Libra Snail Cartridge
3.        Blanks with any of the following headstamps: PP-73 9mm, R.M. * S. *, A E 8, PMC 9mm  LUGER,
T 3 T 57,
     PS 1952
4.        Plated case drill/dummy rounds with any of the following headstamps: CMC 9L, DC 42 9MM,
P120 * 2 37,
     DWM 40 B 2, Geco 9m/m, 9.M38F. 1944,  .RWS.  .9m/m., (CROWN) 5 AMA 5, A74 9MM R1M1,
9MM M2, T 2 T 24,
     Ge 8 D 17, WRACO 9M/M LUGER, DOU * 72 41
5.        French dummy with a plastic body and steel or brass head. Typical headstamp: LM 2 CC 58
6.        Fluted case dummy cartridge with no headstamp, or with headstamp: DWM K 487C K
7.        Cartridges with red or orange tips and headstamps: B^E  9MM  42, KYNOCH 9MM.P, 9  MM  45,
     PMC  9mm LUGER, PEC 9M38  64, FMMAPSF  1947
8.        Blue plastic shortrange with a truncated ogive bullet. Typical headstamp: GD 64
9.        Danish loads (AMA 66 or 67) with yellow, yellow & brown, silver & green, or blue bullets
10.        French mulitball bullets or French bullets with plastic cores
11.        White plastic chamber plug with an O-Ring seal around case.
12.        Geco signal cartridges from 1957 and 1958.
13.        Copper-washed case loads headstamped: R^L 41, WCC 42
14.        French “Autofrettage” rimless grooveless proof loads headstamped: TE 3-60 S 9, SF 56 PY 1,
TE 1-75 F 9.
15.        Cartridge with knurl on both case and bullet. Typical headstamp: 7 17 D
16.        Canadian aluminum case loads by IVI with red or brown cases
17.        Steel case blank with no headstamp
18.        Loads with sintered iron bullets (round nose or truncated) with grooves on the bullets
19.        German loads with round red (or red painted) bullets
20.        LAPUA headstamped blanks with red plastic body
21.        Red plastic blank with a clear plastic head
22.        Swedish short-range with red plastic body and brass head (steel ball in tip)
23.        Fluted case dummy blank. Typical headstamp: DA 57 9MM CDNI
24.        Swiss proof load with black bullet. Typical headstamp: T 3 T 45
25.        Full length blank with a VERY LONG bullet ogive. Typical headstamp: G.F.L. 9M38 64
26.        Conjay Arms CBAP & CBX loads with the following tip colors: white & gray, medium blue & gray,  
     medium blue, white & purple, green & purple, green
27.        9mmP cartridge boxes from: Africa except South Africa & Egypt; Asia except China, India,
Malaysia, Philippines
      & South Korea; Middle East except Turkey, Israel & Syria

If you have any of the items on this want list, please let me know for my records. I am always happy to
purchase items for my collection, and have many excellent and rare items (9mmP and other calibers)
available for trade. Your help with my research and my collection is greatly appreciated.

I publish a Guide to 9mm Parabellum Headstamps and Case Types. Volumes 1-3 are available covering
headstamps A through T. These parts are $50 each and are about 200 pages each. Pages The guide
provides large format photographs of headstamps and case types as well as photos of box labels and
information on the manufacturer and years of production. A key reference for the serious collector. I will
be glad to trade these Guides, or other of my numerous publications for cartridges

Lew Curtis, POB 133193, Atlanta, GA  30333, USA
Email: admin@gigconceptsinc.com
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