Item Number: A01822

Item Title: Super hard-to-find 3in Read shell with 3 flame grooves

Price: $600

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Read shell

Size:

Sabot: Copper ring with 3 cast flame grooves

Fuse: Wood time fuse adapter

Book:

Location Recovered: Virginia

Description:
This is a very uncommon type of 3in Read shell that was cast with 3 flame grooves. Despite the fact that we recently sold another of these, they do not grow on trees and this is only the 3rd one we have had for sale ever.

From a post by the late Mike O'Donnell on our forum:

The Richmond foundry of Snyder & Walker added 3 flame grooves by mistake at the end of 1862. When the first of their Sept. 1862 output arrived at the Arsenal in early Nov. 1862, they were included in the shipment to the Western Theater later that month.

This one has a nicely pronounced lathe lug as well.