L. Brown:
Thanks for checking my post and that would have been 1770s and I'll correct that in the post. True T was the last to be developed and I think I've seen a reference noting T as Troisdorf, but it is Austrian, adopted by the Swiss for their military. The mark for J & S was introduced March 30th, 1896 and the mark for R & M on May 14th, 1898. The French at one time, and may to this day, prohibited any import of foreign powder. From the noted 1780s at the French Powder Works at Essons, with Bertholler at the helm, to the 20th Century were very tight lipped about info on their powders. The Belgian powder Wetteren L3 was very similar to the French Poudre B. Interesting though that Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours went back to France for capital provided by Jacques Biderman, Catoire, Duquesnoy et Cie, Necker along with Archibald McCall of Penn., Pierre Bauduy of Wilmington, Delaware and NY firm of Du Pont de Nemours Pere et Fils, et Cie but held a very tight, possibly unbroken, relationship with the U.S. Goverment as a source for powder.
My question was who or what was the Poudre "T" named after?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Last edited by ellenbr; 02/09/09 11:00 AM.
