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We have a busy upcoming show schedule with the Mansfield show May 4th & 5th and Gettysburg again in late June. 2 more shows on the calendar for July and another in August!

This website is a side gig for us fellow hobbyists, and we have full-time "real jobs." Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but we defintely have a lot of good stuff. Much of it is in the process of being cleaned and inerted, but also I will be out of the country for work quite a bit over the next 6 weeks.

So, you know the drill -- if you have things on your want list, please send them into both of us. We're like Santa's elves and constantly working to find good things for our customers. Please copy both of us on your inquiries -- a well-intentioned customer just sent us both separately after the same item which was a huge waste of time, but that movie will have a happy ending nonetheless as he's going to finally get his Whitworth.

Hope to see many of you at one of these shows.

A00121 - Very Nice CS Lead Side Loader Cannon Ball

Item Number: A00121

Item Title: Very Nice CS Lead Side Loader Cannon Ball

Price: $425

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Cannon Ball

Size: 12 Pounder

Sabot: Wood Cup (Missing)

Fuse: Copper Time Adapter

Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 32
Melton and Pawl (Paperback Editon) Page 34

Location Recovered: Unknown

Description:If you are looking for a nice CS cannon ball, here it is. This 12 pounder case ball is equipped with a copper timed fuse adapter and a lead side load plug. The side loader plug still has it's nice white oxidation that is lost on most during cleaning. The iron on this shell is very good with a light peppering of small pits from the ground action.

For those that don't know, when the case shot balls in the shell were lead they would drill down through the fuse hole to make a powder chamber. Then, when lead became scarce, they put a wooden rod down the fuse hole and fille the area around that through a side loading hole with iron balls which they then suspended in matrix. Once that hardened the rod was removed and replaced with explosive powder.


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