Ammo Can anyone help ID these bullets?

Wraith_3

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I've got a bunch of bullets from my dad's collection that he just had bagged with ? marks on them. I think he got some of them in lots and just didn't get around to ID'ing them. I do have his M&M Projectiles book, but figured some of you could probably easily ID these faster than I could blundering through the book. I know a lot of the more well known ammo types (Sharps, Enfield, Burnside, etc.), but a lot of these I have no clue. They are in this Google Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/EePsCMWe3WCUqyCK7 They are numbered, and there are number gaps because I did know what some were. The following are caliper measurements. Some were not perfectly round which is why I gave a range. Thanks in advance for ANY help you can give me!

#1 .455cal
#5 .57-.59cal
#6 .68-.69cal
#7 .57-.58cal
#8 .50-.51cal
#9 .53cal
#10 .57-.58cal
#11 .57-.58cal
#12 .57-.58cal
#13 .67-.68cal
#15 .53cal
#16 .44cal
#17 .45cal
#18 .51-.54cal
#19 .41-.45cal
#20 .44-.50cal
#21 .55cal
#22 .54cal
#23 .38-.40cal
 
It's pretty hard to identify bullets simply by their calibers.
Pictures would be a very big help.

There is a Google photos link in the post.

Well I just went through his M&M projectiles book and I'm stumped. The dia., lengths, shapes don't match to anything as far as I can tell. There are a couple that are close to "unknown rifle/unknown carbine", but nothing matches exactly. Maybe I'm out of my element, but I can still see pretty well so I have no idea lol

#1 and #16 have those cannelures on them, so I assume they are cartridge bullets. The ones in the book don't have those, so I'm not sure if those are post Civil War or not.
 
There is a Google photos link in the post.

Well I just went through his M&M projectiles book and I'm stumped. The dia., lengths, shapes don't match to anything as far as I can tell. There are a couple that are close to "unknown rifle/unknown carbine", but nothing matches exactly. Maybe I'm out of my element, but I can still see pretty well so I have no idea lol

#1 and #16 have those cannelures on them, so I assume they are cartridge bullets. The ones in the book don't have those, so I'm not sure if those are post Civil War or not.
Thanks, I didn't see the link. Maybe I've become color blind.
 

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