Item Number: A00758
Item Title: 3in Hotchkiss shell -- rare type that took the wood fuse adapter
Price: $295
Shipping: Not included
Provenance: US
Type: Hotchkiss type II
Size: 3in
Sabot: Lead driving band
Fuse: Wood time fuse adapter (missing)
Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 165v
Location Recovered: Unknown
Description:Tough to find 3in Hotchkiss shell that took the wood time fuse adapter. These are very early, but some got used as the Union Army scraped the bottom of it's ammo supply barrels on major engagements. This came out of a long time Richmond collection, but the recovery location is lost to me. Tough to get shell -- a type I version of this shell is shown in D&G, but not a type II.