Item Number: U00904
Item Title: Confederate Girardey Percussion Fuse
Price: $195
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Provenance: CS
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Location Recovered: Richmond defenses
Description:The Girardey percussion fuse element was an ingenious device to turn time fuses into percussion fuses. Throughout the war the Confederate Army was constantly requesting more percussion fuses, but they couldn't get many. The Gurardey fit in the fuse adapter as a paper time fuse would have.
I acquired this from Pete George, co-author of the "Red Bible" reference book on field artillery projectiles of the American Civil War.
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