Item Number: A01758
Item Title: Rarity 8 5.1-inch Hotchkiss Shell
Price: $1000
Shipping: Not included
Provenance: US
Type: Hotchkiss shell
Size: 5.1in
Sabot: Restored
Fuse: Iron percussion
Book:
Location Recovered: Grand Gulf, MS area
Description:Very hard-to-get 5.1-inch Hotchkiss shell. When I got this one from a Midwestern museum where it was de-accessioned in November, it did not have it's sabot.
I restored the sabot in plaster and think it looks way better this way. Only the sabot is restored, the rest is original.
Listed as rarity 8 in Bell's heavy ordnance book, I wonder how Jack would list it now because for years after he wrote his book he was on the hunt for one of these for his own collection. He finally got one a year or two ago, and so in true "a day late and a dollar short fashion" now I have one available.
This is a big shell, and while I can ship it, for cost and hassle reasons I'd rather deliver it en route to or at the Dalton Show.
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