The original (mangey cat) Class 2 Black Cats were 1 11/16" long, which may be what you have pictured. They also came in the 1 5/8" size for a while.
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The original (mangey cat) Class 2 Black Cats were 1 11/16" long, which may be what you have pictured. They also came in the 1 5/8" size for a while.
Although I've never seen such orange fuses, I think Halk mentioned in another thread that for a while the factories were adding some potassium dichromate to the fuses. Potassium dichromate is a very...
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I remember these. I think this version of a tube salute imitation actually had a gelatin capsule within (packed in sawdust) containing only the legal 50mg of flash. You were lucky if you actually...
I'm having the same problem. Nothing beyond the topic, just blank space underneath.
Celebration strings (with the large crackers interspersed) come to mind.
Actually I suspect such relabeling had been going on for years prior to the U.S restoring relations with the PRC. Labor was so much cheaper on the mainland than in Macau? Most of the Macau...
Ha! I wish I'd stopped by YOUR house when I was trick or treating!
Hal, those Phantom boxed items utilized the early 1" brown water crackers. They just encased them with foam and charged a ridiculous price for them.
Thanks for sharing! Those guys cutting the tubes made me nervous. I was amazed they all still had their left thumbs?
I know I've always found the small match crackers to be much safer to play with than occasionally fast-fused regular firecrackers. I guess match crackers are not legal because they're "hand held",...
Those early DOT Anchors are the last I remember.
Late 80's or early 90's? Hal would know for sure. The last gasp for a long-lived brand.
I agree that Flying Fairy Brand made some of the best BP crackers. It was a mainland brand though, so it's interesting that a Macau label was pasted over a Chinese Superior Mandarin label. It's...
As Wingman and Halk stated, virtually all firecrackers made for the Canadian market were black powder. This is usually indicated as "mandarin crackers" or "firecrackers" on the label instead of...
Thanks for posting Tom's translation Hal!
I would guess they came out in the late 60's. I remember a lot of Bango Brand around at the time. The earliest Canadian brands were made in Macau, and then China (Canada restored relations with the...
I think those came out around 20 years ago too. As I recall they are average crackers, but they had a little star comp where the fuse entered the cracker, giving you some brief color before the bang.
I went through a lot of roll caps and Greenie Stick-M-Caps as a kid. It's been a long time since I've seen a kid playing with a cap gun though.
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I think they came in around 20 years ago, I believe through Midwest Fireworks. Good shooters, but damned fast fuses!
As you can see, these Super Cat firecrackers were brought in by Air Capital Fireworks in Wichita, I would guess at least 30 years ago. I know they weren't around for very long as Li & Fung claimed...
2 grains would be around 130mg.
I've shot off quite a few. Reliable fuses and nice reports!
I seem to recall these were made for the southwest Asian market (Malaysia?). I never lit any either, but they were large, red-wrapped crackers which seemed to contain a healthy dose of flashpowder.
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