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A00878 - 8in Confederate Incendiary spherical shell

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Item Number: A00878

Item Title: 8in Confederate Incendiary spherical shell

Price: $750

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Spherical shell

Size: 8in

Sabot:

Fuse: Modified incendiary fuse

Book:

Location Recovered: James River siege lines below Richmond

Description:This was a Confederate innovation -- an attempt to create a shell that would spread fire once delivered to the target. The bursting charge was contained in an inner can, the cavity was filled with a liquid incendiary mixture. The inner fuze is a captured Navy watercap fuze. There are two spanner holes, the other holes are drilled through the entire fuze. There would have been an outer covering, now missing.
Reference: Bell, Heavy Ordnance, pg. 58.

Projectile measures: diameter 7.9in., weight 45lbs.Confederate incendiary fuze intact. Projectile is disarmed, open fuze hole exposes the empty interior.

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

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!

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