How did the powder box work? Glass vials? My father was a watchmaker and used similar cases/boxes to hold small parts for watches. Each hole in the box held a small glass vial and its small cork stopper. But none of the vials I saw would have the capacity for a single charge of BP for Niedner's rifle.
All the tools were spread thought out many lots at the Amber auction with some help from Ron Peterson and the auction people they let me go around with a box and collect all the tools and mould that fit this rifle. I never found the right nipple wrench so had to make the one shown.
After the auction I spotted, in a cardboard box, all the glass vials with stoppers for the powder box. I gave the owner my card but never heard a word back from him. In this big lot of stuff was also a box of Pope false chambers serial numbered to the rifle they were used in, I explained what they were and folks would pay good money to unite them with their rifle, never heard of these ever surfacing.
