1825
Prague, Czechoslovakia

• 1825 Louis Sellier & Jean Maria Nicolaus Bellot established a percussion cap factory in Prague
• ready-made paper cartridges
• pinfire shotshells
• 1870 Louis Sellier died
• 1872 Sellier family bought out Bellot
• plants in Prussia and Latvia
• 1893 trademark appeared
• WWI all of their production
• After WWI leading ammo supplier to their new country’s army and police
• 1936 moved to Vlašim
• 1939 Nazis took over the commpany
• 1940 Soviets took the factory and used their ammo against the Nazis
• S&B nationalized by Czechoslovakia after WWII
• 1992 S&B became a joint-stock company
• 2009 acquired by CBC (Magtech)

Sellier & Bellot