Item: A0001

Price: $1650 (Contact regarding delivery options)

Provenance: CS

Type: Brooke

Size: 7 Inch

Sabot: Copper Plate

Fuse: N/A

Book: Jack Bell Page 180

Location Recovered: Charleston, South Carolina - Long Island Battery

Description:  A truly nice projectile from one of the most important sites of the Civil War: Charleston, SC siege defenses.  This flat nosed bolt was fired by the Confederates from Battery Lamar at Long Island on the south side of James Island near Successionville.  Long Island is known for the wood fused 6.4-inch and 7-inch Harding shells that come almost exclusively from there but some Mullanes and Brookes are found as well.  What makes it especially desirable and scarce is that it does not exhibit the expected 7x7 Brooke slant rifling but instead has 10x10 rifling from a rifled and banded 42 pounder smoothbore.  The rifling marks on the bright copper sabot are truly exceptional and had to one for the first shells fired from that gun.  On the underside of the sabot is the head of the bolt that attaches sabot to the shell body.  Normally the bolts corrode a good bit but this one has quite crisp edges and a very distinct lathe dimple in the center.  The iron body is far smoother than most and has no large or medium pits.  The bourrelets are smooth and show the factory lathe marks.

Preservation was professionally done and you won't have to worry about this one.  In addition to being run in electrolysis for well over a year, the shell has been coated with dark MinWax to set off the copper sabot.

This shell is priced considerably less than a large Brooke projectile normally goes for.  It's priced to move and you could be the one to take advantage of this great price!  Don't hesitate. 

Can be delivered to most shows with the Dalton Show being the next one.  Please email for delivery options.

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