Item Number: F00125

Item Title: Confederate landmine fragment with both threaded fuse holes

Price: $95

Shipping: Not included

Provenance: CS

Type: Confederate landmine fragment

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Location Recovered: Fort Blakely, AL

Description:Small fragment of a landmine fuse recovered in front of the breastworks at the North end of the Fort Blakely line where USCT assaulted the works. This is from a 32pdr ball and has both the threaded fuse hole and the threaded hole for the square headed sideplug. This is the last one I have that has both these threaded holes on it.

Sadly, at the very same time of this waste, The Army of Northern Virginia was surrendering out East at Appomattox Court House, but of course the leaders around Fort Blakely had no way of knowing that.

The fuse hole is unique to these landmines as it is the same diameter and thread pitch as a Bormann fuse, but has no shelf that held the underplug. As most of our customers and forum members know, last Summer we acquired a very, very large collection from this area all dug by the same individual over six decades so the provenance on this piece is airtight. The fuse shown in the picture is for display purposes only, but also came from that large group so is the exact type used in these shells and shows why it was superfluous for the threads to extend all the way to the bottom of the thick wall of the fuse hole.