Bullet and Shell Civil War Projectiles Forum
Relic Discussion => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: CarlS on March 10, 2018, 07:56:19 PM
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Ran across this on my phone. I had forgotten I had taken this at the Dalton Show. RelicRunner and I sold a couple cast "I" buttons about 3 years ago to a fellow at Dalton. He said at the time he was trying to build a collection of 100 of them. This year he came by to show us that he finally got there. See the image below. It was neat to see and I find it interesting what we decide to collect.
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Wow. Cool. Now, tell him to get on with "A" followed up by "C", etc. etc. Finding a 100 "R" and a 100 "M" might be a little challenging.
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LOL! Finding 100 of any of those you mention would not only be hard and time consuming, it would be quite expensive. The Cast-I's probably averaged a bit over $100 each so if you do the math you can see that is quite a sum.
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I already did, but not really that much of a feat, $10,000.00 aint a whole lot of money to some collectors. My point was there are still a lot of "I" out there. But just how many Confederate Marine or Confederate Rifleman buttons are there, much less that are for sale. A person with unlimited funds would have a difficult time fining a 100 M or a 100 R buttons.
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Nice collection. Neat to see all the different patinas side by side.
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Nice collection but I think folks on this site would be more impressed with 100 Hotchkiss shells side by side! ;D
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Or maybe a 100 Archers or 100 James
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Or a stack of 15 inch four fuzers
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The stack of 15" balls has already been done, right?
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I think Mike had a little bitty stack of 15 inchers - but not the four fuzers.
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never heard of 4 fused 15" balls, mine has 3 fuses
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Big Iron Man had a stack of 15” balls. I have 3 so am 1 short, and only one is a 3 fuser.
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Did I say four? I meant three.
I almost bought a solid 15 inch ball from Lawrence Christopher once - it weighs 400 pounds. If you recall, his workshop was on a hill overlooking the county road. He told me the last time he tried to move one it got out of control, rolled down the hill over 2 trees, across the road (no cars hit), and down the other side.
I looked at my Mustang, and decided against it.
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I bought a single fused 15" and had it delivered to the Marietta Show, the buyer and seller finally got it moved from one vehicle to another and off I went in my wife's new Honda CRV into what is commonly known as a Southern "Toadstrangler" Summer thunderstorm. All went semi well until I hit the I 20/I 459 interchange just East of Birmingham when the ball got loose from it's not so secure mountings and away it went. When I got the CRV back onto the road and back under control all went well until I got home and tried to unload the ball (which by this time was just being referred to as you B*****d), now everytime that I look at the hole and the cracks in the concrete floor I remember that many of my bright ideas aren't that bright and the folks at the Honda Dealership still are probably a tad confused at the explanation that a 150 year old cannonball did all of that damage to the interior panels.
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:o Never mind what the guys at the dealership thought or said, WHAT DID the wife say? ;D
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The Colonel had a great deal to say, very little of which is fit to print;but your motto about sums it up. PS: This was actually the second time that this had happened, the first time was when I "borrowed" her jeep to pick up a 200# Parrott shell.
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I was planning on buying a 15" ball from Harry. He actually offered to crate it up and ship it to Hawaii by freight. He said "no problem." Then he came back with the price: $2,000. I still want to add one to my collection one day.
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LOL. that is soooooo funny.
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To prevent a repeat of previous mishaps, she then went out and bought a Mini Cooper (which is too small to haul a tube of toothpaste, much less a hunk of iron) and would not allow me to have the keys.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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long before my 1st shell, late 80's, little antique shop in waynesville oh had 3 weird large cannon balls with 3 fuses sitting outside in the grass. not knowing anything and cannon balls should only have 1 fuse, and pre internet, took awhile to find out they were real . beside, they looked really heavy, and the car was a long way away. 2 hr drive to get there, so took a month to get back and I hurried to the store. well they were gone.looking back, at $40 each, wish I had bought one anyway, but it was alot of money then for a guy starting a family
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I can relate to that. shoot we all can probably. On that subject, If you know Steve Mullinax's code you can decipher when and how much he paid for his artifacts. I've seen some prices that would make you cry, wishing you could go back to that time period.