Item Number: U00424
Item Title: Q stamped CS copper time fuse adapter in frag from a 12pdr spherical shell
Price: $125
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Provenance: CS
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Location Recovered: CS retreat route in VA
Description:This is another neat relic recovered by Bebo Compton along the Confederate retreat route to Appomattox. Pete George has deduced that the Q is a stamp made at the Samson & Pae machine shop in Richmond which made ordnance for the Confederacy. This was a sideloader shell and it broke upon bursting along the weak spot made by the sideplug.
I have one of these that Bebo dug in the same area with an I stamped in it as well.