I enhanced the seller's crappy photo some to show a little better detail.
That little history cited from Roger Stowers' website possibly contains a grain of truth, but Stowers gets the first name wrong and misspells the last name of the actual founder of the Mayville Engineering Company, Ted Bachhuber.
If anyone actually took Acme's design it was probably Leo Bachhuber, who convinced cousin Ted to go into business with him.
You can get the straight story on MEC and Bachhuber here:
History of MEC
Profile of MEC Founder Ted Bachhuber
Nothing is mentioned, of course, about the MEC design being ripped off from Acme, but many famous companies have their beginnings in copied designs and ideas from other people or companies.
You can look at this loader and see it's quite different from a MEC. It doesn't take much of a design change to maneuver around a product's patent protection.
The Texan reloader was designed and manufactured by one person, whose name escapes me, and that design was no doubt copied from someone else's -- maybe MEC's.
But if Cousin Leo actually did copy the MEC reloader design somewhat from Acme, then this reloader would be at least an interesting, if not slightly valuable, piece of reloader history.
And even if there's no relationship whatsoever to MEC, the Acme is still worth something to some collector.
And in about four days and 10 hours from this moment we'll find out exactly how much.