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Dug Civil War Brass CS Time Fuse Adapter Still in Piece of Shell - Petersburg VA For Sale
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Dug Civil War Brass CS Time Fuse Adapter Still in Piece of Shell - Petersburg VA:
$69.99
This sale is for a CS time fuse adapter dug in Petersburg, VA, still screwed into a piece of the top of the spherical shell. Fuse adapter looks to be about 1-3/8\" long and is about 1-3/16\" across the top. Distance between the center of the spanner holes is about 7/8\". Remnants of the paper time fuse are still in place in the fuse hole, as you can see in the pictures. The fragment of the spherical shell is very rusted but is still solid. Tough to clean pieces like this that are composed of two types of metal with electrolysis. Best to just coat what you want to protect and leave it at that.
However, I didn\'t dig this one. I acquired it from someone who dug it in the 1970\'s or 1980\'s, so I don\'t know exactly where it was found in the Petersburg area. All the digger would say is it was from the Battle of Petersburg. (diggers are that way) The fuse and part of the shell are coated to protect it. This fuse is in excellent shape. and shows the paper time fuse remnants well. A nice display piece.I\'ve been asked how I know this is a CS time fuse. Well, that\'s an easy one - the Union didn\'t use this type of time fuse adapter. CS forces found that their versions of the Bormann Time fuse were very unreliable, so they developed a simple screw-in time fuse adapter to use instead. This is one of those. Very late in the war the CS arsenals opted to simplify their paper time fuse adapters even more - by using slotted fuses that could be screwed into a spherical shell using any flat thin piece of metal. But this one is the earlier type that still had the two spanner holes.
Will sell and ship only to the USA.
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