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

I just aquired 2 stripper clips(5 rounds each)in original box of 8mm ammo. The rim of the ammo has 1938 stamped on the bottom and also the below pic is stamped on the rim. The box also has the same pic along with some German I can't understand written on the box.

The package\rounds are all in very good shape




I got this from a reliable source and was wondering if its worth anything to sell or should I just be happy with some memorabila.

Any info would be helpful

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

Heres what the box looks like.

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

If it were me I'd just keep it. I'm sure it is worth something, especially since everything looks to be in good shape, even the box, but I would want to keep it to have. There will never be any more of that run made.

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

That's Nazi marked 8X56R ammo. If I'm right, and actually not sure, then it's a round needed by the Steyr ManlicherM95's that have been available for the past 15 years. I've some of the same stuff (and one of the rifles), and I think mine is marked '38 as well. I've seen this ammo and the clips on E-bay for ridiculous asking prices compared to what I paid several years back.
To be honest I haven't been checking the prices on it for awhile but I think it may stil be availbable, maybe even in quantity, if you look hard enough.

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

I have no idea if it is worth anything. But I think it is pretty cool. Tom.

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

Its Steyr-mannlicher ammo and its fairly common. Ita availability is on and off, sometimes suppliers have cases of the stuff for low prices, right now noone seems to have it. A year ago, they couldn't give the stuff away, but now an importer has imported a huge number of Steyr-mannlichers and ammo is scarce.

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

Never seen that before, but I have fired a box of 7.62x39 ammo, from 1939, and it was French! I saw the empty cardboard box in the ammo case, and when I read it, I thought it was funny that 60-year old ammo shot so well as it did!

It said something like

"Metalfabrikken

(gibberish) 7.62x39 cartouche

Anul 1939"

It looked like any old cardboard box, I wonder if any of you guys know if it was worth anything?

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

that sounds German to me?

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

"Cartouche" doesn't sound German, and the stuff that I called "Gibberish" probably didn't sound German either, maybe you should search an online German and French dictionary, try "Anul", which probably means, "year"
and then "Cartouche".

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

Here:

1 cartouche Noun, feminine (a) cartridge

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/

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.