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A00493 - Fabulous 3.3in Shell for early Parrott rifles, formerly called a Burton
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Item Number: A00493

Item Title: Fabulous 3.3in Shell for early Parrott rifles, formerly called a Burton

Price: $1250

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Dyer sabotted shell for 3.3in Parrott gun

Size:

Sabot:

Fuse: Wood time fuse adapter (missing)

Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 141

Location Recovered: GAR post

Description:This is one rare and controversial shell, but I believe we solved the mystery of it in this, admittedly too long, thread on the forum:

http://bulletandshell.com/forum/index.php?topic=910.0

D&G have this as a rarity 10 shell. I own the one shown in the book (and paid way too much for that one -- suffice to say close to 3x what this one is listed for), and this one has better iron but no sabot. The lack of sabot reveals this to be of the Dyer sabot type which is interesting. One of the early Parrott rifles that fired this type of projectile is at the Citadel now and it appears that most if not all the guns ended up in the South for the war making it a Northern manufactured, Southern used round.

This one has gold paint on it from having been in a GAR museum. A great, rare shell...