Item Number: U00871

Item Title: Girardey percussion fuse

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Provenance: CS

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Location Recovered: Spanish Fort, AL

Description:Ingenious device that turned shells made for use with paper time fuses into percussion ones. The Confederate Army was desperate for more percussion fused shells throughout the war and this was their ordnance department's response.