Nope. Monster chlorate-based salutes were common well before Hitt invented flashpowder right after WWI. Cannon crackers were made for toy cannons. Pistol crackers were made for toy pistole.
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Nope. Monster chlorate-based salutes were common well before Hitt invented flashpowder right after WWI. Cannon crackers were made for toy cannons. Pistol crackers were made for toy pistole.
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I'd like a few boxes of 14" from Butler Brothers.
And good to keep them cool also, like the ammunition makers recommend.
Got some crackers made in Taiwan pre-1857 and they still go bang.
Was the railroads that started the restrictions, not against the public, but for the industry.
Too many cases of torpedoes going...
The brand came out during the Korean War. 1952 I believe. The 'rough cat' label was used on 1-5/8 and 1-11/16". All cello wrapped I believe. Slightly later, the 'semi smooth' or 'notched ear' label...
Thanks. You explained the 'gray area' perfectly. They are concerned about use and transfer (as is DOT), and possession of explosives or related materials and devices in or potentially in illegal...
This is a gray area for so many regulatory agencies. All sorts of products were made before they imposed tens of thousands of rules on transport, storage, and use of so many items formerly and...
Yeah Dr. Lai mentioned that in his book. Chinese also tried all sorts of additions to black powder over the years. Have some very old One Thousand Blessings crackers from Taiwan that I can clearly...
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I think the first PGI 'supersstrings' sort of evolved from individual members just hanging and shooting long strings and rolls of 2-grain crackers. Possibly some ICC's in the earliest conventions in...
Have an old Hitt's printblock on eBay now that shows their famous
Flashcracka and the patent number. Also a block that shows their famous "Regular fellas" on their salute boxes.
The really big (up to 14") domestic salutes were not flashpowder. Just plain chlorate/sulfur/charcoal stuff.
The Chinese for centuries tried adding various chemicals to their basic blackpowder...
pre-1950 Zebras, the King of Crackers. Tube and round salutes are merely crude noisemakers.
Could be bulk crackers sent to Macau for braiding and packaging, as actual production there was in decline. Some companies actually removed labels from packs made in the PRC and replaced them with...
I should elaborate a bit more here. In his book on the Taipa firecracker trade, Dr. Lai mentioned 'flashpowder fuses' when describing the addition of potassium dichromate to make fuses faster...
Yes obvious pixellation was found on both pack labels and logo crackers not marked as reproductions. Heard one phony pack sold for $1400. A lot of money was spent on other items also.
Anybody here go to Newton? Heard there were a lot of fake items being sold as authentic.
All I wanted to add is that today’s firecrackers are not braided. The crackers have short (<?") fuses bent and held parallel to a piece of fishfuse (like visco, but burns much faster and brighter...
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Lefti all Chinese firecrackers used fuses made with black powder. And no, they never tried to slow down by any means. In fact one of the main selling points of the premium brands was 'fast lead...
Chinese firecracker fuse has never been made with flash powder. A small amount of potassium dichromate was added at one time in the '50's, according to Dr. Lai's book, but I don't know the reason...
Have some 1-1/2" BC crackers from early DOT era (1972-76) that came loose in boxes of 50.
Yep. Some US companies did that also. Article in PGI Bulletin about that.
Thanks for the image of the three boxes. These date way back to Macau production. Guessing they were made by Po Sing in last gasp effort to survive.
Workers not yet displaced by machines as in China.
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