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B00035 - Selma 75 for Pattern 42 Tower

Item Number: B00035

Item Title: Selma 75 for Pattern 42 Tower

Price: $550

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Model 1842

Size: 0,714 dia x 1.054 length

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Location Recovered: Selma, Alabama

Description:
Our friend Bill Lockridge obtained a small handful of these a few years ago and got the "leadheads" all excited. Bill likes his Selma stuff and the price reflects that as well as the rarity of this bullet. He is putting this one up for sale here. Dean Thomas wrote about it and others in an American Digger article on the bullets of Selma and associated it with the Pattern 1842 Enfield (P42). The Confederacy must've gotten stuck with some of these obsolete weapons and made ammunition for them at Selma. #214 in McKee in Mason is slightly over 0.70" in diameter and finding a true one of those is virtually impossible. It will fit in nicely for the deep pocketed bullet collector.

Addendum: Michael Fincher just eMailed that this bullet is listed in Dean Thomas' book RBTRF IV as bullet #597.

Here is a link to Dean's article on the bullets of Selma where one of these is shown and discussed.

http://www.civilwarprojectiles.com/articles/bullets_selma.htm


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