Shell casing Age

[Woodland Detectors]

Fellas, This is a cool one. It actualy has US stamped atop where it was fired. Any clues as to its age? Thanks buddays!

 

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[72cheyenne]

Looks like the size of a .22 caliber casing. Maybe this. http://www.oldammo.com/march05.htm Scroll down to the next to last one.
Or this. http://cartridgecollectors.org/22box/22box.htm Scroll down through the pic. Several US Cartridge company boxes. I've yet to see the marked shell though. United States Cartridge Co, 1869-1926 (Figure 14a, 14b)

 

[Ramitt]

the .22 short seems the more likely as small as it is.
Maybe? but just a box pic.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=129601539

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,113865.0.html

 

[Woodland Detectors]

The United State Cartridge Company was incorporated in 1868 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Although U.S. Cartridge never attained the stature of Peters or Union Metallic Cartridge, it suffered a similar fate. The National Lead Company purchased half interest in the U.S. Cartridge Company in 1910 and the remaining half from the Butler family in 1919. National Lead became a subsidiary of Winchester in 1926, but Winchester-Western apparently did not take full control of U.S. Cartridge until the mid-1930s.