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18TH CENTURY FRENCH BRASS
GUNNER'S RULER, 7",
hand engraved artillery gunner's ruler with tables with French legends
market BUTTERFIELD. Beautiful engraving used to
calculate artillery elevations. Choice condition...................$375.00
YORKTOWN
HAND GRENADE, 3"
hand grenade with fuse hole. A small portion of the wooden fuse
remains in the grenade. Excavated in Yorktown, VA area. Grenade is on
a wooden display stand. Rare to have any part of fuse still
inside..................$550.00 CROWN
POINT, NY 2# CANNONBALL, two
pound cannonball excavated near Crown Point, NY. American made crude
seam. Moderate pitting and quite solid. Fired from wall swivel guns on
ramparts or from mounted in small ships. Revolutionary War
period....................................$95.00 REVOLUTIONARY
WAR BROWN BESS MUSKET BALLS FROM SAVANNAH MARKED "TOWER",
these cast Brown Bess musket
balls were discovered near Savannah and date to the Revolutionary War.
They are marked arsenal, marked TOWER and came from a case of imported
musket balls. The balls were cut off the sprues and the straps
re-melted into locally made balls. Savannah was captured by the
British in 1778 and a combined American and French force
unsuccessfully tried to re-capture it in 1779. The city was finally
re-captured in July 1782 by General Anthony Wayne. Cast balls of this
type on the original straps are very rare...........................2
balls $60.00
3 balls $95.00 BATTLES
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, three
very significant battles of the Revolutionary War were Saratoga,
Brandywine, and Yorktown. On September 9 - 11, 1777 at Brandywine, the
British under General Howe drive Washington and his 10,500 towards
Philadelphia. At the Battle of Saratoga on October 7th, 1777, American
forces defeat Burgoyne at Freeman's Farm. Finally at the Battle of
Yorktown, Cornwallis surrendered 8000 troops to Washington which
effectively shut down British military operations in America although
there were minor skirmishes until 1782. From left to right are lead
pistol/musket balls excavated near Saratoga, Brandywine, and
Yorktown............................$75.00 FORT
HALDIMAND, CARLETON, ISLE, grape
shot excavated from the Rev. War site of Fort Haldimand. Old digger
reports that they were found in a single hole probably a broken
case..........................$20.00/each BATTLE
OF YORKTOWN, VA - 1781, where
Cornwallis surrendered his army. Musket balls that came from the
vicinity of the Yorktown battlefields in Virginia. Ex-Bob Oswald
Collection. Have very few available...........................$20.00/each MOUNT
INDEPENDENCE, musket
balls from the vicinity of Mount Independence near Lake Champlain in
Vermont where American troops built fortifications to prevent a
British attack from Canada in 1776. Later captured by the British and
Germans.................$15.00/each
large 1" grapeshot, rare.........................$30.00/each CHARLESTON,
SC, musket balls
recovered from a site near Charleston, SC where the British captured
and moved north finally resulting in the Yorktown Campaign of
1781..................................$15.00/each SARATOGA,
NY, musket balls
recovered from a site near Saratoga, NY. Battles near Saratoga in 1777
led to the defeat of an army of near 6000 men with seven generals.
Fired balls.............................................$20.00/each CROWN
POINT, NY, large 1"
- 1.5" iron grapeshot with some of the larger ones possible being
for small swivel cannon. Crown Point was captured by the British and
held most of the Revolutionary War
(10)...................................$30.00/each FORT
TICONDEROGA, NY, dates
back to the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary War. One
of the most famous of the early forts in the Hudson Valley have the
following: (a) fired pistol balls (13)............$15.00/each
(b) iron grapeshot........$30.00/each BATTLE
OF BRANDYWINE, PA, (a)
musket balls from the vicinity of the Brandywine Battlefield of
1777........$20.00/each
(b) pack of 3 buckshot (4)......$15.00/each
(c) grapeshot...................$30.00/each 17TH
CENTURY MUSKET BALLS, very
large caliber musket crudely cast that came from an unknown 17th
century American site. We have about seven in total to sell. These are
very early examples of musket balls used in the colonies. Similar ones
were excavated along the James
River...................................$20.00/each BROWN
BESS RAMROD ASSEMBLY, both
sections of the the ramrod assembly for a Brown Bess musket. Brass, in
excellent condition from an unknown Colonial
site....................................$85.00 BRITISH
TROOPS ON DAUPHIN ISLE, AL, British
musket balls recovered from a British camp at Dauphin Isle, AL. Where
the British mounted an offensive against Mobile after their departure
from New Orleans in January 1815.......................$25.00/each MEXICAN
WAR MUSKET BALLS, excavated
from the site of the Battle of Buena Vista. American balls of various
caliber. Uncommon.........................$12.00/each FRENCH
REVOLUTIONARY WAR LEATHER CARTRIDGE BOX, 18th
century, black leather cartridge box with large over flap front.
Wooden interior with no block as cartridges were simply laid in the
wooden tray. Pick and flint pouch under flap. Two buckles on base with
bras finial. Very fine condition overall. Seldom seen
style.................WAS $795.00
NOW $695.00
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