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Clark's Illustrated Treatise on the Rifle, Shotgun and Pistol, (1850) lists Eley's chemically prepared felt gun wads. Both pink edge and concave edge, the latter guaranteed to permit 6 to 8 times more shots between cleanings than with paper wads. So the use of prepared wads must have predated fixed shotgun cartridges.