ARTILLERY

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Artillery Shells  


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

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

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


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


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

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

Artillery Sponge Cover  
Mint condition Wool Artillery sponge cover for a 12 Pound cannon.
$395.00 - JS272
Ref. pg. 70 Cannons by Dean Thomas

8 Second Paper Time Fuse
Frankford Arsenal - Untied.
$150.00 - AT108

5 Second Paper Time Fuse
Frankford Arsenal
$195.00 - AT106

Confederate Artillery Gimlet
$295.00 - AT101

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