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We have a busy upcoming show schedule with the Mansfield show May 4th & 5th and Gettysburg again in late June. 2 more shows on the calendar for July and another in August!

This website is a side gig for us fellow hobbyists, and we have full-time "real jobs." Apologies for the lack of updates recently, but we defintely have a lot of good stuff. Much of it is in the process of being cleaned and inerted, but also I will be out of the country for work quite a bit over the next 6 weeks.

So, you know the drill -- if you have things on your want list, please send them into both of us. We're like Santa's elves and constantly working to find good things for our customers. Please copy both of us on your inquiries -- a well-intentioned customer just sent us both separately after the same item which was a huge waste of time, but that movie will have a happy ending nonetheless as he's going to finally get his Whitworth.

Hope to see many of you at one of these shows.

A01159 - Pointed Nose Dyer
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Item Number: A01159

Item Title: Pointed Nose Dyer

Price: $125

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: US

Type: Dyer Common Shell

Size: 3 Inch Caliber For Ordnance Rifle

Sabot: Lead Cup (Missing)

Fuse: Dyer Time Adapter

Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 146
Melton and Pawl (Paperback Editon) Page 53 A-61

Location Recovered: Unknown

Description:This is the far less common style of the late war produced Dyer shell for the 3" ordnance rifle. Most have the rounded nose and are predominately case shot. This is the common shell and sports a more pointed nose. The iron is good and solid. The shell is not run through electrolysis but I feel if so it would come out with a nice smooth surface. It also has a far better than average Dyer time adapter still intact with spanner holes still very visible. The shell is missing the sabot but that gives us a good view of the base showing the cross mark that is cast on the bottom. This was a later manufacturing attempt to help prevent the sabot from rotating and twisting off. They never really figured out how to reliably keep the sabot on as fired example with the sabot are pretty uncommon. I'm sure you'll like this example.

Note that the shells appears shinier in the pics than in person.

Shell is inert, uncleaned and coated.