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Artillery Shells
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3" x 7 ½" Confederate Read
Excavated from the Richmond Defenses.This is an unfired shell with no
rifling on the brass sabot. The copper time fuse is intact.
Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT191 $400.00
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3" x 7" Fired Federal
Hotchkiss Shell
Excavated at Antietam Battlefield
Three part shell, lead band in the middle, no flame groove. Shell generally employed a percussion fuse and is "common" shot, not filled with balls. Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT189 SOLD
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3" x 8 1/2" Parrott Shell
Excavated on the Spotsylvania Battlefield. For use with the 10 lb. Parrott
Guns. These would have been filled with lead or iron balls. It has the remains of timed fuse.
Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT185 SOLD
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Federal Dyer Shell
Excavated on the Spotsylvania Battlefield in Virginia. 7" in length with the lead sabot
intact. For use with the 3" Ordnance Rifle. Fuse would have been paper or wood.
Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT187 $350.00
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3" x 8 ½" Confederate
Read Shell
Excavated outside of Richmond, Va. For
use with the 3" Ordnance Rifle. This is a lathe turned shell with dimple on the iron sabot. Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT193 $375.00
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 3" x 7 ¼ " Confederate
Broun Shell
Excavated from the Richmond Defenses.
The Broun was a late war shell. The nose is rounded with bourrelet ring and would have had a copper sabot extending below the base, a technology copied by the federals later,
however the sabot flew on most fired examples. Produced lat in the war, metal quality is usually poor. Cast for a wood fuse.
Unloaded – Powder Removed
AT194 $420.00
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Artillery Sponge Cover
Mint condition Wool Artillery sponge cover for
a 12 Pound cannon.
$395.00 - JS272
Ref. pg. 70 Cannons by Dean Thomas
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8 Second Paper Time Fuse
Frankford Arsenal - Untied.
$150.00 - AT108
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5 Second Paper Time Fuse
Frankford Arsenal
$195.00 - AT106
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Confederate Artillery Gimlet
$295.00 - AT101
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