Saw something interesting on a factory card,

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Saw something interesting on a factory card,

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"Cast off 8 to 10 mm"
Would you think they were doing anything metric in the early 1900's?
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Re: Saw something interesting on a factory card,

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I saw that and wondered why it was metric too? Curiouser and curiouser!!
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Re: Saw something interesting on a factory card,

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Some stats in metric were given on most of the order cards for the guns ordered by L.H. Hagen in Christiana (Oslo), Norway.

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See the Card of the Month for January 2011.
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Re: Saw something interesting on a factory card,

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Dave, the card shows it was shipped to a domestic company, not European. Thoughts?
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