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Very
nice condition excavated 3.8 inch Hotchkiss
time fused rifled projectile. This
projectile was recovered about 40 years ago
from private property near Vicksburg,
Mississippi. It has been disarmed,
cleaned, and coated and is ready for
display. This is a projectile not
often encountered in complete
condition.--$595.
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Excavated,
6 pound size, reconstructed, Confederate
canister round. This canister was
recovered on private property near Shiloh
during the early 1980's by Frank "Twitch"
Witham. It has been cleaned, coated,
and is ready for display.--$395.SOLD
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Excavated
massive cast brass Federal Artillery
stirrup. This was recovered many years
ago from Morgan's CS artillery position at
the base of "Vaught's Hill" at the Battle of
Milton, TN. This one stirrup would
make at least a dozen "C.S.A." buckles.
I have only ever dug one of these, and it
was at the Battle of Nashville.
Beautiful condition.--$175.
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Drop
Dead Beautiful, and "SUPER RARE" "elongated
nose" 3.59 inch Schenkl case shot
Projectile. This is a "Non-Excavated
example" that came out of a Civil War era
home in Fredericksburg, VA. To my
knowledge, there are less than five
"non-excavated" examples of this projectile
in existence. In 50 years here at the
store, I have only seen three. Being
non-excavated, the condition is nothing
short of super nice just as issued.--$1,850.
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Extremely
Drop dead beautiful, and SUPERrare, non-excavated, early "rocker base", 3
inch, time fused, flat topped Hotchkiss
projectile. This particular projectile
came out of an old home along the Nashville
Battle line. The shell is 100%
non-excavated. These type Hotchkiss
projectiles have only been recovered at a
few very late war Civil War sites. I
have personally recovered two of these at
the Battle of Nashville, and several of my
friends have recovered some as well.
This is a beautiful example with brass time
fuse in place.--$695.
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Beautiful
condition, excavated, 6 pound solid shot
cannonball. I recovered this
projectile about 40 years ago in Homer
Gannon's back cornfield. It is
cleaned, coated, and comes with a display
stand.--$195.
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Excavated,
12 pound size, Confederate copper time-fused
Artillery projectile. This cannonball
was recovered many years ago on private
property near Chickamauga, Georgia, and has
been disarmed, cleaned, coated, and is ready
for display.--$325.
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Excavated
Bormann fused, 6-pound size Confederate
cannonball. This cannonball was
recovered back in the 1980's on the Homer
Gannon farm on the west side of the Old
Nashville Highway not far from the current
Thompson Lane bridge. It is disarmed,
cleaned, coated, and ready for display.
We are going to include with this ball a
wooden display stand.--$275.
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Beautiful
condition, 12 pound size canister round that
was recovered on private property along the
Confederate approach route to McFadden's
Ford. This round was recovered in
pieces and has been reconstructed for
accurate display. There was, once upon
a time, when hunting that area, you could
not take three steps without hitting a
canister ball. Thus, 1800 Confederates
were killed in one hour in this location.
This is the area where it was reported that
Stones River ran red with blood for an
hour.--$495.SOLD
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Excavated,
12 pound size, thick canister base plate.
This was recovered many years ago on private
property here at Stones River and has the
impression of the canister balls deeply
imbedded from firing. In the early
years, we used to recover these quite often.
They are very rare to find now.--$95.SOLD
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Extremely
rare excavated "EARLY WAR" long tail pattern
3 inch Confederate Archer solid bolt
projectile. This was recovered near
Shiloh, and is very nice having never even
been washed off !! This projectile was
recovered by "the" well known "Twitch
Whitham". Every early Relic Hunter
around Shiloh knew "Twitch"- aka --- Frank
Whitham !!!! I like it just as it is,
but this Confederate Projectile would clean
up to "Non-Excavated" !!!!---$1,450.SOLD*
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Very
pretty excavated "3.67" IN. Schenkl
projectile that I RECOVERED during the 1970s
on private property just down the street
from the shop. There is currently a
massive Baptist Church sitting square on the
spot where it was found. It was a
pretty harvested corn field at the time !!!
I cleaned it - drilled it - and sold it to a
good friend who kept it until he recently
passed. There are quite a number of
nice relics in this collection that bring
back wonderful digging memories. This
projectile is the "raised rib" variety, and
the brass percussion fuze is maker marked.
It is 100% safe and ready to go on
display!~!--$795.SOLD
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Absolutely
beautiful condition 3.8 in. Type 1 James
Shell that has been a door stop in a local
home here at Stones River for the past 100
plus years. It has a smooth
"handled",. brown patina, and is actually a
Non-excavated example. The brass anvil
cap remains perfectly intact, and I have
"VERY CAREFULLY" drilled the shell, and
"removed" all the black powder, and it
is now ready for display !! Before
disarming ---- This Baby was still "RED HOT"
!!!--$1,150.SOLD*
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REALLY
PRETTY excavated drop 3-inch Confederate
Read-Broun. This shell was recovered
many years ago near Five Forks, Virginia.
These are only recovered at relatively late
war sites.--$650.
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Really
nice excavated 12 lb. Bormann cannon ball
fragment recovered here at Stones River, and
is about 1/3 cannon ball, and is displayed
with 15 projectiles that were also recovered
here. The Bormann section is cleaned
and coated, and shows a section of the fuse
hole. Super desk display.--$95.
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Quite
rare, recovered from Stones River, 12 pound,
"wood drive-in fuse" type cannonball.
This cannonball was recovered about 40 years
ago by Dr. Francis Fesmire. The ball
has a large portion of the original wooden
sabot still intact as well as an excellent
condition, original wood drive-in fuse plug.
The ball has been cleaned, coated, disarmed,
and is ready for display.--$375.
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Beautiful
condition excavated solid shot 12 lb.
cannonball recovered just North of Shy's
Hill at the Battle of Nashville, TN.--$225.SOLD
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12
lb. solid shot cannon ball recovered many
years ago here at Stones River from what
used to be the Homer Gannon Farm.
There is a MONSTER size Baptist church
located there now. It is cleaned and
coated ready for display. I once dug 6
shells out of "one hole" on this farm - They
had dug a DEEP hole and did battlefield
clean-up, and tossed the live shells into
the hole in an attempt to keep them from
hurting anyone !!--$225.SOLD
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Excavated
"ground burst" 3 inch Read Confederate
Artillery shell. This projectile was
fired by Morton's Battery of Forrest
Artillery at Sulfur Branch Trestle near
Athens, Alabama. The projectile
plunged into the ground near the railroad
trestle and burst underground. I have
re-attached one major break line so that the
shell displays as a complete projectile with
one side blown out. It comes with a
custom-made wooden display stand.--$425.
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Excavated
fuse portion with side-loader plug of a
Confederate 12-pound, copper time fused case
shot ball. This super neat artifact
was recovered many years ago on private
property at Petersburg, Virginia.--$125.
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Excavated
group of 22 case shot - cannister - grape
shot, all recovered from the battlefield
here at Stones River. Most have not
even been washed off and consist of about
half a dozen different sizes and
varieties.--$195. for the entire group.
That is less than $10 per ball.
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Really
"BIG", cast brass sabot from a 30 pound size
Parrott shell. This was fired from one
of the gun boats at Eastport and recovered
on private property there. It has a
beautiful, slick, green patina and has not
even been washed.--$35.
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Beautiful
condition, excavated, lead-filled, circular,
"bulls eye" artillery rosette. This
was dug from a Union Artillery camp on
private property in General James Wilson's
Union camps located near Gravelly Springs,
Alabama.--$65.
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Original
non-excavated Civil War Artillery Flame
Concentrator. These were used to
channel the flame and hot gases from being
fired toward the paper time fuzes that were
filled with fulminate. These were
intended to reduce the number of time fuze
shells that the paper time fuze didn't light
and were duds.--$48.
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Excellent
condition, unopened packet of 10-second
Civil War Artillery time fuses.--$75.
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Excavated
top section containing the fuse hole of a 12
pound Confederate polygonal cavity
cannonball. This was recovered just in
rear of where Mendenhall's battery here at
Stones River was in line of battle (near
McFadden's Ford).--$45.
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Three
Civil War artillery artifacts that were
recovered
here at the Battle of Stones River about 40
years ago. The display consists of a
partial "high lip" Confederate Borman fuze,
a complete unfired cannon friction primer,
and a cast brass Confederate Bormann
underplug.--$75. for all, and is displayed
in a riker glass case
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Excavated
brass sabot and base from a Confederate Read
projectile. This was recovered on
private property here at Stones River.--$45.
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Excavated,
nose section of a 10 pound Federal Parrott
shell recovered many years ago just down the
road from the shop on what was known as
"Gannon's farm". The fragment is very
unusual in that it still contains the
complete pewter time fuse adaptor.
This site is now under a HUGE church.--$79.
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Original
brown paper wrapped packet of five and ten
second Civil War Artillery fuses.
These were used by both Union and
Confederate Artillery.--$75.
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Civil
War and pre-Civil War cannon "port fire".
This was used to touch off cannons in the
early days when a wick was used to touch off
the cannon rather than the Civil War Era
brass cannon friction primers. This
one remains in excellent, unused
condition.--$75.
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Excellent
condition, cast brass, short pattern,
Confederate cannonball time fuse. This
was recovered at the Battle of Nashville and
is literally nice enough to screw back into
a ball.--$55.
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Original,
1863, green colored wooden packet of
Frankford Arsenal Civil War artillery time
fuses. All five fuses remain intact
and unused in the packet. This would
be an excellent compliment displayed with
your Civil War Artillery shells.--$95.
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Group
of ten assorted sizes of canister balls
in an old tin that were picked up around the turn of the century in
a cotton field here at Stones River.--$145.
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Excellent
condition, unopened packet of "Frankford
Arsenal" 1864 date, 5-second artillery
fuses. This packet is pink in color
and has all five opening ribbons still in
place. These packets have become very
difficult to find in nice condition and
unopened.--$110.
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Very
nice condition, excavated, dropped,
Confederate used, imported, short pattern, 3-inch Armstrong
projectile. What make these shells
different and stand out are the large copper
studs that are imbedded in the shell that
engage the rifling upon firing. This
projectile was recovered many years ago near
Wilmington, North Carolina, and to this day,
remains rusty and dirty just as found.
These are only found in a relatively small
area and are quite rare to recover.--$695.
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Mint
condition original unissued "red"
Federal Artillery hat cord for the
"Hardee Style Hat".--$48.
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Artillery
"gimlet" out of a local estate and is very
crude with a wooden handle. It shows
handling and use and could very well be
Confederate.--$95.
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A
bit rare to come by - "LONG RANGE" 30 second
Civil War Artillery Time fuze. In 30
seconds you could almost send a Civil War
Projectile into the next time zone !!--$38.
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Excavated
Hotchkiss brass percussion fuse plug from
the Second Day fightlng - Battle of
Nashville, TN. It appears that upon
impact the top of the fuze plug sheared off
when the internal fuze slider hit it.
Neat artillery relic !!--$38.
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Three
excavated, partial, pewter Bormann time
fuses. These were recovered many years
ago here at Stones River. One is a
standard Federal Bormann fuse, and two are
rare "tall lip" Confederate Bormann fuses.
All three for--$45.
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Excavated
Confederate copper Bormann fuse under plug.
This CS under plug was recovered on private
property at the Battle of Nashville,
Tennessee.--$65.
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Early
battlefield pick-up, "raised rib", 3.67 inch
Shenkl fragment. This was picked up
long ago here at Stones River and almost
appears non-dug.--$25.
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Set
of four excavated iron balls ranging in size
from canister ball size and on up to a Naval
grape. Quite nice little artillery
display.--$75.
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Excellent
condition, 6 lb. gun size, CS fired canister
ball and one 12 lb., Napoleon gun size,
Federal canister ball. Both these
balls were recovered on private property
here at the Battle of Stones River, have
been cleaned, coated, and are ready for
display.--$45. for both.
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Excavated
set of 3 Naval Grape - The larger balls are
roughly 2 inches in diameter. These
were recovered on private property at
Vicksburg, MS. many years ago.-- $65. for
all three