Item Number: A00491

Item Title: Rare 12pdr CS polygonal with the copper time fuse adapter

Price: $375

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Spherical shell with polygonal cavity

Size: 12pdr

Sabot:

Fuse: Copper time fuse adapter

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Location Recovered: Unknown

Description:This is a really tough shell to get and let me tell you some of the reasons. This has a polygonal cavity, but you can only be certain of that in the ones like this which have fuse adapters that unscrew. It has been my experience that the cavity inside these is the toughest type to get -- the trapezoidal pattern. I cannot be 100% positive in this case because I cannot see inside, only feel the lines of weakness with my small finger fingertip. This type is not even shown in D&G!

The fuse adapter came with the shell, but was jammed in halfway. I paid a machinist to get it out and he did so without damaging the adapter. The adapter is the late war kind which has the tapered bottom as at this point of the war, the Confederacy was literally "cutting corners" to save copper.