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M00647 - Portfire

Item Number: M00647

Item Title: Portfire

Price: $25

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: US/CS

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Description:Portfires are big sticks of slow match or punk used to ignite cannons before the advent of friction primers and as a backup to friction primers as evidenced by a portfire holder bracket on Civil War era cannon carriages. It looks like a small portion of this one has been cut off.


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