Item Number: A00121
Item Title: Very Nice CS Lead Side Loader Cannon Ball
Price: $425
Shipping: Not included
Provenance: CS
Type: Cannon Ball
Size: 12 Pounder
Sabot: Wood Cup (Missing)
Fuse: Copper Time Adapter
Book:
Dickey and George (1993 Edition) Page 32
Melton and Pawl (Paperback Editon) Page 34
Location Recovered: Unknown
Description:If you are looking for a nice CS cannon ball, here it is. This 12 pounder case ball is equipped with a copper timed fuse adapter and a lead side load plug. The side loader plug still has it's nice white oxidation that is lost on most during cleaning. The iron on this shell is very good with a light peppering of small pits from the ground action.
For those that don't know, when the case shot balls in the shell were lead they would drill down through the fuse hole to make a powder chamber. Then, when lead became scarce, they put a wooden rod down the fuse hole and fille the area around that through a side loading hole with iron balls which they then suspended in matrix. Once that hardened the rod was removed and replaced with explosive powder.