As a general rule, pinfire shotshells were manufactured and sold to sporting goods stores as new-primed empties.

People would then buy loaded ones from their local store loaded with what they needed based on what they were shooting. Or some people would even load them themselves.

I talk about a few of these that were loaded by American companies here: https://aaronnewcomer.com/american-companies-who-loaded-pinfire-cartridges/

Also, a few of the ads shown in my article about James Erskine and his loading machine are from stores that advertise that they load cartridges to order via his machines: https://aaronnewcomer.com/the-pinfire-patents-by-james-erskine/

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