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CarlS

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Selma Sadness
« on: October 09, 2011, 05:13:16 PM »
I thought I'd share this with the group.  A friend brought me for conservation this 3.67 (20 lber) Selma long pattern shell he recently picked up and as as collector it's enough to make you want to cry.  The sabot is beautiful but the shell apparently came from somewhere not iron friendly and the effects are obvious.  Note the wood fuse still present.  It's a really rare projectile but only a shell of it's once beautiful self.   ;D
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Re: Selma Sadness
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2011, 07:57:54 PM »
It looks like it came from Port Hudson
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Re: Selma Sadness
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2011, 08:55:10 PM »
  Although I agree that it does look like some of Port Hudson's worst-condition shells...  no projectiles of that type (which I call a CS Blakely-Plate Type 2) are currently known to have been found at Port Hudson.  My guess for the dig-location is Fort Blakely, Alabama (on the edge of salty Mobile Bay).

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