Shot Filled Hotchkiss Shell
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This Hotchkiss shell
had been fired during the battle but it never exploded properly and cracked
into two pieces upon impact with the ground, revealing it's contents of lead case-shot
balls and matrix.
Both pieces are included. Although the number of case shot balls was small, isolating the bursting
charge to their rear with an iron plate threw them forward when fired, with even
deadlier force than other styles of case shot. The Hotchkiss shell
was the most common projectile fired from the Model 1861, also known as
the Ordnance Rifle.
This rare Hotchkiss relic is in excellent
condition, the two pieces fit perfectly together and it is coated for preservation.
Recovery location is
unknown, it was preserved as a pristine example of a Hotchkiss Shell and
was purchased as museum surplus.
$1068.95
Model 61 Ordnance
Rifle
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Artillery Fragments, Gettysburg,
Pickett's Charge, size varies from 2" - 4.5" wide
SOLD
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Cannon ball, Gettysburg, used by Moody's Madison
Battery positioned his right gun near the Trostle Farm and fired against Union artillery on Cemetery Ridge and Little Round
Top with his four 24-pounder cannons on July 3. The intensity of the two day fight showed in the battery's casualty figures, losing 28% of the men engaged. It did not, however, lose any guns.
This cannon ball is approx. 1-7/8" diameter.
Note: NO grape shot was used at Gettysburg, NO plates were ever recovered,
those having a hole in the center for a bolt. One cannon ball is available
and was recorded as being recovered
from the Little Roundtop area in the collection. This iron cannon
ball was used in canister shot, as ALL cannon balls of this type recovered
in Gettysburg were used.
$125.95
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1" iron canister ball, Gettysburg, Pickett's
Charge, 6 pieces available. The cannons firing this type canister
were double loaded at Pickett's Charge and decimated the Confederate wave
as it marched past the Codori Farm during the afternoon of July 3, 1863
towards the stone wall.
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