Original Full Pack of St Louis Arsenal Rifle Musket Cartridges (1864) For Sale

A pack of 1864 St Louis Arsenal paper cartridges......This is a full packet of ten .58 caliber paper cartridges made at the St. Louis Arsenal in 1864, and intended for use in the muzzle-loading .58 rifle-muskets and rifles with which the majority of the Union troops were armed.The cartridges are in the packet in two rows of five, with one cartridge being oriented nose up and the one adjacent to it being nose down and so on. The label on the packet was applied to the wrapper prior to its being folded around the cartridges and tied. The label reads:RIFLE, MUSKET & RIFLE 58.
65 GRAINS M. POWDER.
ST LOUIS ARSENAL
1864.