Item Number: A01766

Item Title: Wonderful Atlanta Style Read

Price: $725

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Read

Size: 2.9 Inch Caliber (10 Pounder)

Sabot: Copper Ring

Fuse: Wood Adapter (missing)

Book:

Location Recovered: Unknown

Description:This is a really nice specimen of a shell of the style "Atlanta Read" where they were likely finished though made at foundry and shipped to Atlanta. Pete calls them "Read-Blakely" Read shells. This one is very similar to the one on Page 249 of the 1993 Dickey-George book but does not have the CS copper adapter or the groove filed into the sabot. This appears to be the style the book refers to with the "flat knob" on the bottom rather than the rounded base. It is a finished shell so not from the cache of unfinished shells found at the arsenal. It may be fired though I can't tell for sure. The iron is in really good shape with only the slightest of ground action to indicated it was dug. The fuse hole is pretty clean and the powder cavity quite clean. The copper sabot has a super look with a nice dark copper color that accents the very dark iron body. There is one minor period-looking dent in the sabot. This shell displays excellently. Had I not found a couple around here at Kennesaw I'd surely add this one to my collection.

Additionally, a neat side bar on this shell is that it is from the collection of Jack Bell, the author of "Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance" or as most collectors call it: 'the heavy artillery book'. Jack has been collecting and sharing information about artillery for decades and is one of the hobby's greats.

Shell is inert, cleaned and coated.