I don't have much in the way of ammunition catalogues for the 1890s, but my 1893 Chas. J. Godfrey catalogue offers UMC shells factory loaded with Schultze, E.C. and a powder refered to as S.S. All were bulk. According to Stadt, Winchester provided smokeless powder shotshells to "selected" shooters in 1893 and began offering them to the general public in 1894. My 1894 Chas. J. Godfrey catalogue agrees, as it offeres both UMC and Winchester nitro powder shells, with the Winchesters offered with Schultze, E.C., S.S. and American Wood. By my 1895 Chas. J. Godfrey catalogue DuPont Bulk has joined the offerings. By my September 1897 Chas. J. Godfrey catalogue, dense smokeless powders, Walsrode and Gold Dust are being offered in UMC "Acme" shells.
My earliest ammo company catalogue is a 1903 UMC, and by that time the dense smokeless powders being offered were Laflin & Rand Infallible, Shotgun Rifleite, Walsrode and Ballistite. In that 1903 catalogue, pink Nitro Club shells were loaded with medium charges of bulk smokeless powder; yellow Nitro Club shells were loaded with medium charges of dense smokeless powders; salmon colored Arrow shells and green Trap shells were loaded with bulk smokeless powders and maroon Arrow shells were loaded with dense smokeless powders. By that catalogue, the maroon UMC Acme shell was being offered as a primed empty for loading with dense smokeless powders, the equivalent of the maroon Arrow loaded shell. The UMC Expert was the primed empty equivalent of the green Trap loaded shell, and the salmon color UMC Magic was the primed empty equivalent of the salmon color Arrow loaded shell. Similarly the pink UMC Challenge and the yellow UMC Monarch were the primed empty equivalents of the loaded Nitro Clubs.
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