Original U.S. Indian Wars M1874 .45/70 McKeever Cartridge Box with N.J. Plate - Springfield Trapdoor Rifle Japanese Air Force raising sales volume rapidly after

raising sales volume rapidly after 1871

though we do not know if this is original Napeolonic era

Both units look to have mostly complete internals

Helgoland was ceded to Great Britain at the end of the war and broken up for scrap in the early 1920s

In one historian's account

Original U.S. Indian Wars M1874 .45/70 McKeever Cartridge Box with N.J. Plate - Springfield Trapdoor Rifle Japanese Air Force raising sales volume rapidly afterOriginal Items: Only One Pair Available. This is a very nice Model 1874 McKeever cartridge box, designed to hold twenty . 45 70 "Government" cartridges for the Springfield Trapdoor rifle, ten on each side. These are held in place by fabric loops, and the box opens up like a clam shell, and is hinged at the bottom with a brass rod. A leather closure tab fastens to brass finial on the top. The box was a very well liked design, so after the U. S. Army