This is a free shotshell headstamp database with photos and probable production dates.
The database is a work in progress and the production dates given are rarely exact but the ‘most likely’ dates given the evidence I have available.
Click on a link below to jump to that type of shell or scroll down to browse.
Headstamps
Anglia
Boss
Braddell
Churchill
Cogswell & Harrison, Cogshultze, CHMC
Curtis’s & Harvey
Daws
W.E. Ekins
Eley
Federal
Gordon Cartridge Company
Greener
Grenfell & Accles
Jeffery
Joyce
Kynoch
Mullerite
New Explosives
Nobel
Normal
Pape
Peters
Remington Arms
Remington-UMC
Robin Hood
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (C.C.Co., J.C.Higgins, Ted Williams, S.R.&Co.)
Western Auto
Winchester
UMC
United States Cartridge Company
Australian Brands – companies that did not manufacture their own shotshells.
Australian Manufacturers
UK Brands – companies that did not manufacture their own shotshells.
UK Manufacturers
Cogswell & Harrison – (Cogschultze, CHMC)
US Brands – companies that did not manufacture their own shotshells.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (C.C.Co., J.C.Higgins, Ted Williams, S.R.&Co.)
US Manufacturers
Peters Cartridge Company *** Updated Dates: 10/06/24 ***
Union Metallic Cartridge Company (UMC)
United States Cartridge Company
Winchester Repeating Arms *** Updated Dates: January 2022 ***