It seems that I have found a boatload of Western Cartridge Co. paper beginning with the Super-X booklet of 1922 that covered just the 2 3/4 inch 12- and 20-gauge loads. I have ten different editions of their booklet Super-X The Long Range Load by Capt. Chas. Askins. The earliest is undated with a grey cover, then a grey cover with a 5-28 date. Then a cream cover with green printing dated 4-30. Then a cream cover with blue printing dated 2-31, the first to include the 2 7/8 inch 28-gauge Super-X shell. Then a blue cover with green and dark blue printing dated 2-32. Then back to cream color with maroon printing dated 11-32. Then another blue cover with green and dark blue printing dated 2-33. Then another cream with maroon printing dated 11-33, the first one I have that includes the 3 1/2 inch Magnum-Ten and the 3-inch .410-bore shell. Then two more cream with maroon printing dated 11-34, and 10-35. Beginning in 1937, Western Cartridge Co. began putting out a Western Ammunition Handbook. There are many editions of this booklet from the 1st edition which appears to be 1937 to the 16th edition dated October 1951. The 6th edition, which appears to be 1940,introduces the Super-Seal crimps. Throw in a dozen or so of their ammunition price lists, and one gets a pretty good picture of what they were offering when. Several editions of the Super-X the Long Range Load and the Western Ammunition Handbook seem to be regularly offered on ebay.
I have found Western Cartridge Co. paper from before the introduction of the Super-X load to be virtually non-existant.
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