I have an I.C.I. Eley Kynoch catalogue from 1936. They were still advertising the Eley "Brown Pin-Fire" capped cases for home loading in 12 bore and 16 bore then. I would suspect that the War ended any further availability. The illustration above will date from Kynoch's first catalogue issued in January 1882 until their final listing of this blue quality case in pin-fire which was in 1886 when only 12 bore and 16 bore were then offered. Kynoch was certainly still listing pin-fire cases and cartridges in their 1891 catalogue but in Brass, Brown Quality & Green Quality and they only seem to be in 12 bore by then. What he produced prior to 1882 isn't clear but certainly you illustration is from that 1882 catalogue. Well worth framing up. Very interesting. Lagopus…..
