RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

car·touche or car·touch (kär-tōōsh') Pronunciation Key
n. A heavy paper cartridge case.

[French, from Italian cartoccio, paper cornet, from carta, card, paper; see carton.]

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Wikipedia and dictionary.com didn't have results for the other two in question and that one word being French was really enough to convince me. I don't really see French and German being on the same box from that time period?

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

I doubt it, since I don't think the French would have had time to make ammo during the Vichy government (The Nazi occupation government), since France would have had plenty of old ammo, plus, the ammo box didn't have any swaztika on it.

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

What rifle did you fire it out of?

It couldn't have been 1939 for year of manufacture, the 7.62x39 cartridge didn't come about until 1943.

Do you have any pictures of the box? 'Metalfabrikken' sounds Scandinavian.

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

You sure come up with some strange stuff! The Soviet 7.62X39mm round did not exist in 1939! It was developed in 1943 during the worst of the Great Patriotic War battles in the heartland of Russia, and was not issued (in the SKS, the first weapon ever chambered for it) until AFTER VE Day (8 May 1945).

In addition, I do not believe that cartridge was ever made in France! What did you shoot it in??

"Metalfabrikken" sound Swedish or Norwegian to me!

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

The French should have tons and tons of surplus ammo as I dont think they ever used any during the war..;)

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

I wanted to make this joke but couldn't think of how to word it. Fine job! hahaha

RE: 1938 Nazi 8mm Ammo--is it worth anything?
 

Well, whatever it was, we shot it out of an SKS.

I don't have a pic of the box, it's just a plain cardboard box with absolutely no emblems on it.

Just mainly what I wrote it said.

It did say "Anul 1939", on the end, so I supposed it was from the year 1939, but "Anul", isn't French, or German."Cartouche", is French, though, maybe it's from some colony that was French? But, then again, there's the problem of the year the 7.62x39 cartridge came out.