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CS 6.4" RESABOTED READ SHELL

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:375.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 1,500.00 USD
CS 6.4  RESABOTED READ SHELL
CS 6.4" RESABOTED READ SHELL. Excavated. Unfired. Has an extremely rare, hand-made copper sabot. As per Jack Bell on page 421 in his book, Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance, "As early as April 1862, Confederate ordnance officers recommended that large cal. Read projectiles be discontinued because iron sabots did not take the rifling well. Correspondence in the Navy OR's indicate this may have been re-saboted at the Gosport Navy Yard." The sabot is fashioned after a Tennessee sabot pattern and is bolted to the bottom of the Read base. Has Confederate Navy watercap fuse. CONDITION: Some restoration to the shell body, otherwise good condition. 4-55879 JM120 (750-1,500)