The old hand crank roll crimpers will work great with paper. Brass shells "can" be done but it is hard on the user and the crimper. With brass, all you are looking for is a slight radius roll of the mouth. I have no examples of an american factory shell using a star crimp (I couldn't absolutely rule it out). You will find some european examples done so. Some early Winchester shells did use a serrated "finger" crimp. The vast majority of factory boxes of brass shotshells (and early paper) were sold NPE or unprimed empties. You can find military boxes by Winchester and Remington that are factory loaded, but you will not find 1 in 200 of the early civilian market brass shell boxes marked loaded with powder and shot. The exception to this is the loaded all brass 410 shotshells by the United States Cartidge Co. and a few by Montgomery Ward.
You don't have to take my word for it, just seriously collect them for a few decades and see what you come up with.
