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Relic Discussion => Artillery => Topic started by: speedenforcer on June 11, 2011, 10:00:11 AM

Title: ebay junk.
Post by: speedenforcer on June 11, 2011, 10:00:11 AM

I thought ya'll would get a laugh out of this ebay item. If the link dont work, the item # is 330573285668

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Antique-Civil-War-Artillery-Cannon-Parrot-Shell-/330573285668?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf7b40924

Title: Re: ebay junk.
Post by: tom buckley on June 11, 2011, 10:16:19 AM

This ebay junk will be even easier to pass off as real when it turns up in estate sales many years from now. I hope my grandkids will know the difference.

Title: Re: ebay junk.
Post by: John D. Bartleson Jr. on June 11, 2011, 12:28:12 PM

The Middle fuse adapter is pretty close to the top fuse one.
John

Title: Re: ebay junk.
Post by: Jack Melton on June 11, 2011, 03:11:09 PM

This is a World War II German stock-mine 43 or concrete stake mine.

http://warrelics.eu/forum/ordinance-ammo/concrete-mine-8322/

Title: Re: ebay junk.
Post by: John D. Bartleson Jr. on June 11, 2011, 06:54:11 PM

Well this one sucked me right in.  I should have paid attention to the scale and also read the e-bay description.
John
 ;D

Title: Re: ebay junk.
Post by: swest47 on June 13, 2011, 04:34:53 PM

It was obviously not a Parrot shell. What it was/is is anyones guess.

All anyone has to do is send the guy a message and tell him he is mis-representing the item or tell ebay. The links are there. Had I seen the listing I would have done it even though I wasn't interested in the item just to keep a neophyte from getting bitten.

I would purchase artillery shells from ebay as long as I have good photos and an explanation of where found. That gives me a good idea if the person knows what they are talking about.

I don't want someone to tell me they found a Sawyer at Mansfield, La.  Ain't happening!

Some people are interested in fragments, I'm not. I did however sell a Sawyer fragment, a nice burst fragment with the flanges on it, on ebay for a friend of mine. It came from Port Hudson.

You just have to know what your doing before ya do it.