Item Number: A01767

Item Title: Rare Short Broun Shell For Rifled 6 Pounder

Price: $2850

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Broun

Size: Rifled 6 Pounder (3.67 Inch Caliber)

Sabot: Copper Ring

Fuse: Wood Adapter (missing)

Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 136
Melton and Pawl (Paperback Editon) Page 52 A-58

Location Recovered: River at Selma, Alabama

Description:Listed as rarity 9+ in the 1993 Dickey-George book, this Confederate shell is one that rarely comes along. I can only find reference to one other one we've offered on our site.

While the common 3" Broun seen from Virginia are a more standard long pattern shell (about 3 times the caliber), this pattern is short at about 6 inches (1.6 times the caliber). It also differs with the interior being that of a star segmented shell designed to break into known pieces much like the British Britten shells.

The shell is in super nice condition other than one place that was likely poor iron that popped when taken from the river. The rest of the shell's iron seems very solid. All of the ones I have seen have this same type pop on one side as does the one in my collection likely due from where they laid on the river bottom. The lathe dimple is clearly seen on the bottom. The bourrelets are not tall but in nice condition. The wood adapter fuse hole is very clean as is the shell cavity. It has a perfect unfired copper sabot. This shell displays great. This is a hard one for serious Confederate artillery collectors to get.

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 in inert, cleaned and coated.