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Hey thanks for the offer, Ralphie! I do think if you were to consider Dave's suggestion of maybe emailing the image to Dave, it would ge a great way for everyone to enjoy! I used to collect a lot...

I still have a few cherry bombs from 1966 made by New Jersey Fireworks Co., Vineland New Jersey, that still work quite well. So be careful with that Globe torpedo.........there's one way to find...

Not too long ago, I found this jar full of loose Gorilla brand logo crackers, among other things. A friend of mine who passed away a few years ago, compiled a collection of labels, data, logo wraps,...

I think the earliest I remember them being referred to as "ashcans" was as a 9 or 10-year-old in the early '80s via a national news segment on TV. Not sure why, but I associated the term with those...

Wow! I'd take all that in a heartbeat! Too bad I'm too far from Madison otherwise I'd call it a weekend roadtrip.

Arclight,

Thanks for your input on this! I've often referred to brisance as the overall pitch as well as concussiveness of the report in a salute/shell. Would a higher pitch indicate a higher...

No, I got them from a friend many moons ago. The others I remember were Horse Brand Thunderbombs and Tiger Head Brand with the forest background. All of them really good but yeah, those Tigers were...

Nice stuff, Dave! Those full-color logo crackers for the Dutch market are highly sought after by the European pyro collectors, in fact they're pretty much a 'holy grail' variant to many over there. ...

Most likely. A good black powder with proper confinement can do heckuva lot of damage.

Right?!! Talk about cannon fire! I think one of those may have been what my grandpa was referring to when he blew up the family outhouse as a kid in the 20s.

These were made around 4 or 5 years ago and are counterfeit labeling. The last packs of authentic Ducks to come out of Macau from Po-Sing/Yick Loong were many decades ago. The penny pack bricks...

Looks like the head bomb of a celebration string went off first, followed by the crackers. If he had rockets instead, it would have been a literal crotch rocket he was riding.

I would like to think the big-ass letters spelling 'TOP' would have been sufficient enough, lol!

He looks pretty close to Spanky from Our Gang.
Even the 2 inch variety of Unexcelled flash salutes were absolutely brutal - goes to show you how kids this young got along shooting stuff like this...

Did you know toilet paper makes for a superior charcoal in black powder? Watch this video for the results. It's pretty amazing, actually. Just be sure to have plenty of it so you don't end up...

Holding a sparkler at age 3, and smelling the smoke from smouldering conical fountains after they went off. That had to have been around '77.

You'll most likely find newspaper was used to make the cracker tubes on these. At least I remember the later versions were.

Didn't you have a pack of these at one time? I could be mistaken. If not, looks like you caved and cracked it open - I wouldn't blame ya, lol!

Thank God! Can you imagine the logic behind all this? That would mean virtually unrolling each and every cracker in a brick to make sure they all contained less than 51mg. Good luck with that! ...

I've heard the cold is definitely not friendly to fireworks that have whistle mix in them. The contraction of the mix from tubes can cause misfires or cato.

Ralphie, I also forgot to mention that the looped fuse was meant to be lit as is, but I suspect there were a lot of kiddos back in the day that would tear off one side to make the fuse longer. These...

The payload/flash was carefully poured into a handmade paper envelope or pouch made from a type of kraft paper slightly softer or malleable than your standard paper grocery bag-type paper. The...

From Wiki:

"Hexamethylenetetramine is the base component to produce RDX and, consequently, C-4[4] as well as octogen (a co-product with RDX), hexamine dinitrate, hexamine diperchlorate and HMTD."...

#silentfireworks....WEAR EARPLUGS!! With all the fireworks going off in the past, what 1,000 plus years, you'd think bees, birds and wildlife have gone extinct with that logic. True, some military...

How do you put two mortars in one tube? ;)