Bullet and Shell Civil War Projectiles Forum
Relic Discussion => Artillery => Topic started by: divedigger on November 12, 2017, 07:28:34 PM
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flushing mud out of this 10" ball and found a peach seed some Civil War joker stuck inside the fuse hole
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that's cool - petrified I guess. I once pulled whole corncob pieces from a shell that was being used as a paper time fuze adaptor. It was drilled or whittled out and everything. Ingenuity when in need....
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LOL, awesome! Carolina peaches no doubt
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As the seed inside of the peach pit contains a minute amount of cyanide, maybe he was practicing an early form of chemical warfare.
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Some worker who was loading the shell and too lazy to walk to a refuse can just threw it in shell most likely. Lazy 5 cent an hour worker!
As with you I'm sure, it has been amazing the variety of 'stuff' that I have washed out of these shells on occasion.
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did it still have the original fuse in it or was it open allowing a mischievous child or someone to put it in there at some point in its 150 year existence?
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no fuse and due to its location it was unlikely to be added afterwards