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| Nice Water Recovered Buck & Ball Projectiles Fused Together |
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| Here is a Neat Fused Together .69 Caliber Buck & Ball Cartridge ! Well, it’s not an entire cartridge but just the projectiles, .69 musket ball & 3 .31 caliber buckshot, that were recovered from the James River in Virginia. It comes with the Riker box and original label. The old label says, “fused together by rust”, but I’m not sure if that’s it, or it was just from being pressed together under water. Anyway, it makes a neat display of exactly what was in a “Buck & Ball” cartridge ! [ L.L. ]
$35 plus shipping
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| Nice Dropped .577 Caliber Enfield Bullet with "L2" Marking in Cavity |
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| Here is a Fine Dropped .577 Enfield Bullet with an “L2” mark in the Cavity ! It has no digger damage or dinks of any kind, and a super slick woodsy patina. The bottom of the cavity walls are uneven and there are some patina chip on the bottom, but the “L2” mark is easily seen. Recovery location unknown. A Very Good Displaying Example of the L2 Base Marked Enfield Bullet !
$25 plus shipping
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| Nice Dropped Round Nose Variant of the .44 Caliber Slant Breech Sharps Bullet - MM197 - Recovered Pilot Knob, Missouri. |
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Here's a Fine Dropped .44 Caliber Sharps Slant Breech Bullet ! It is the less often seen pattern, with only two raised rings, and a round nose. It shows a nice overall white patina, with no digger damage at all. It is MM197 in Mason & McKee, Civil War Projectiles II. Recovered Pilot Knob, Missouri. A Very Fine Displaying Sharps Slant Breech Bullet.
$50 plus shipping
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| Nice Dropped .44 Caliber Slant Breech Sharps Bullet - Recovered Pilot Knob, Missouri. |
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Here is a Nice Dropped .44 Caliber Sharps Slant Breech Bullet ! It is the “standard” pattern with three raised rings, similar to MM194 in Mason & McKee, or Specimen 531 in Round Ball To Rimfire, Part Two, by Dean S. Thomas. It shows an overall nice white patina, with no digger damage at all, and trimmed casting sprue on the base. Recovered Pilot Knob, Missouri. A Fine Displaying .44 Caliber Sharps Slant Breech Bullet !
$45 plus shipping
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| Nice Dropped Richmond Labs Colt .44 Pistol Bullet |
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Here is a Nice Dropped Richmond Labs Colt .44 Bullet !
It's got a mostly smooth white/brown patina with a dark chip
on the reverse side but displays well from this side, and has no
digger damage. Single depressed ring, with no raised ring and flat
base with tiny depression. Bullet mics out about .455 diameter by
.695 tall. You can see this bullet in Dean S.Thomas new book,
Round Ball To Rimfire, Part 4, page 173, specimen #25. Nice
Confederate Bullet Manufactured at the Richmond
Laboratory !
$25 plus shipping
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| Very Nice Dropped .54 Caliber "Nathan Bedford Forrest" Enfield Bullet |
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(Thought I either lost or previously Sold this bullet, and when someone called to order it, I could not find it. However, one day NOT in the relic room, I found it.)
Here is a Nice Dropped .54 Caliber Confederate Enfield Bullet, also known to Collectors as a Nathan Bedford Forrest Enfield! These smaller .54 caliber Enfield/Pritchett type Bullets are often excavated in sites associated with General Forrest, thus the name. This one measures about .974 of an inch tall, by .520 diameter. It has a wonderful slick brownish patina often seen on bullets recovered in the woods, and no digger damage. It has a few tiny patina chips on the base and a casting imperfection in the cavity. A Nice Nathan Bedford Forrest Enfield Bullet!
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| Nice Non Dug or Dropped Approximately .50 Bullet for Two Groove Rifle |
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| Here is a Nice Dropped Conical Ball for 2-Groove Rifle ! It has a mostly grayish patina with some specks of white, and may have actually come from a cartridge, rather than being ground dug. It measures approximately .485” diameter on the body, 5.15” across the raised studs for the two grooves, and is about .925 of an inch long. Recovery location is unknown. Similar to the larger near .69 caliber 2-Groove bullet associated with the Brunswick rifle, this may be for a sporting version of that rifle. A Nice Dropped Bullet For 2-Groove Rifle !
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| Good Woods Dug .44 Slant Breech Sharps Bullet |
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Here is a Dropped .44 Caliber Slant Breech Sharps Carbine Bullet ! It is in good condition with a brown woodsy patina and no digger damage. It does have a period vertical slash that you can see in the third picture, that runs down the three raised rings, but it is definitely period. Pretty examples of this bullet run $45-50 but this one is priced much nicer, and is still a good displaying example of the pattern. A Good .44 Sharps Slant Breech Bullet !
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| Nice Dropped .577 Caliber Enfield Bullet with "57" Marked Cavity |
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| Here is a Nice Dropped .577 Enfield Bullet, with the “57” Cavity Mark ! It has no digger dinks or gouges, still retaining its form fine, but shows a mottled gray/white patina, either from bad ground, or from rolling around in a container for a while. However, the “57” in the cavity is easy to see, and the bullet still makes a fine displaying example of this type. Recovery location unknown. A Nice Dropped “57” Cavity Enfield Bullet !
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| Fine Dug Three-Piece Shaler Bullet |
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| Here is a Fine & Complete 3-Piece Civil War Shaler Bullet ! The .58 caliber round shows a light mostly gray patina on the middle and top sections, with a dirty gray patina on the bottom. The mostly matching patina, and the way all three pieces fit together so well, may indicate they were recovered together. Originally intended to increase the effectiveness of the .58 caliber musket, the bullet was not the success envisioned. Recovery location unknown. A Fine 3-Piece Civil War Shaler Bullet !
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| Excellent Dropped .44 Caliber Slant Breech Sharps Carbine Bullet |
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Here is a Beautiful Dropped .44 Caliber Slant Breech Sharps Bullet ! It has a wonderful mostly white patina on the whole bullet with no digger’s dinks or damage of any sort. The base and nose are in good condition as well. Recovered at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, it’s the last of several I once had. A Fine Dropped .44 Caliber Sharps Bullet !
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| Group of Five Nice Dropped .52 Caliber Sharps Carbine Bullets - Maysville, Arkansas |
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Here are Five Nice Dropped .52 Caliber Sharps Carbine Bullets ! All five have a nice white patina with no digger dinks or scrapes, and all five retain their form perfectly. The one in the middle is generally considered to be an early or pre-war pattern, while the other four are war-date examples. These bullets were all recovered at Maysville, Arkansas, which was a very early war Arkansas State Militia Training camp, and a site that was used by many troops of both sides throughout the war. Five Very Nice .52 Caliber Sharps Carbine Bullets !
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| RARE Dropped Confederate "Arkansas Hog" Bullet - .69 Caliber Trans-Mississippi Projectile - Recovered at Mark's Mills, Arkansas |
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| Here is an Excellent Dropped Example of the RARE “Arkansas Hog” Bullet ! It’s actually a .69 caliber French Mangeot bullet, and is #608 in the Mason & McKee book, Civil War Projectiles II. I suspect they got the name “Arkansas Hog” due to the fact that they are primarily recovered in Arkansas, and a few in Missouri. This one has a nice mostly white patina with several areas of encrusted dirt still on it. There are a couple of period scratches too but they show the same patina as the rest of the bullet, and there are no digger dinks or scratches. This bullet measures at approximately .680-.685 diameter by 1.184 in length. In his article for North/South Trader’s Civil War magazine, titled, War in the West Yields Rare Bullets, Part II, Meigs Brainard illustrated three variants of the Arkansas Hog Bullet, and I believe this particular example is a Type I, based on the deep truncated cavity and the nose profile. A Nice Example of a RARE Trans-Mississippi Confederate Bullet! It was recovered at Mark’s Mills, Arkansas.
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