Presented is this empty wooden block which housed six, .44 caliber skin-wrapped, seamless cartridges, now gone. Wooden block / box has over 90% of the original brown paper label glued to the box surface and reads “PRESSED WATERPROFF / CARTRIDGES, / For Colt’s Army Pistol. / Pat March 18, 1862 / HAZARD POWDER CO. / HAZARDVILLE, CONN.” Box measures 3 1/8” long x 1½” high x ½” thick. The brown paper has darkened but the verbiage is easily visible in black ink. One end of the wood block has the paper torn away to reveal the six empty holes drilled to accept the .44 cal cartridges which were considered a common type of ammunition used for cap and ball pistols and revolvers during the War. A fine display item.

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