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[Stryker65]

I'm new to posting replies so I don't know if everyone is able to see my responses. I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the help.

No one has any thoughts on the 6lb cannonball?

Perhaps you could attach a picture of the cannonball as well?

 

[Salterr]

I'm new to posting replies so I don't know if everyone is able to see my responses. I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the help.

No one has any thoughts on the 6lb cannonball?

I don't see one. You have the same photo posted twice

 

[Fharms]

Perhaps you could attach a picture of the cannonball as well?

I thought I had included a picture.
Here it is. It's 6 lbs and has a seam in it.

 

[R. Porter]

The house was built in the 2000's and you found a Civil War portrait hidden in the wall??? How does that happen? Do you think you might find something in your neighbors' house walls too? Maybe we need to have a muster at your neighborhood.

 

[Conquerordie]

Nice find! I need a house like that. I think the musket is a conversion M1816. Look at the side plate, it's wider and more of a profile than a M1842 sideplates. From what I understand conversion type muskets were only used early in the war, or maybe rear echelon troops.

 

[Wendy Joseph]

I guess it depends on the age of the house. The OP doesn't specify how old the house is but there have been stories of people either storing things or items falling behind walls from attic rafters. I've heard many times that people have retrieved very old newspapers from walls. Used for insulation in very old houses. It could be entirely possible that a renovation put up an inner wall with modern insulation as to not disturb the original wall of some Victorian house. Not saying the OP lives in a Victorian mansion but some of the houses are protected from remodeling from a preservation aspect. I've seen it where entire fireplaces were boarded up and walled off, the owners never knowing it was there until a renovation.

During the demo of a property we purchased after the mortgage collapse of 2008, which was associated and on the same land as our house, we took down a strange header over the basement stairs, and out fell the deed to the house and other important papers in a large leather wallet.
When we finally pay off the mortgage on our own home, I will be burying it in the newel post. Whether or not this is just an old myth, I hope that the builder of the house, CW Private Knott P. Martin of Co. M, 1st Mass Arty. may approve.

 

[chubachus]

Wow, thanks so much for this info. I was wondering if he was a confederate soldier given the shade of the uniform.

I'm thinking of selling my cannonball and the tintype as a set. No idea if that would give me more money or not

I would recommend selling the photo online by itself if you want top dollar for it. I wouldn't risk sending a cannonball in the mail.

 

[Fharms]

I want to sell both my cannonball and the civil war photo.

Does anyone want to make me an offer

 

[Fharms]

I would recommend selling the photo online by itself if you want top dollar for it. I wouldn't risk sending a cannonball in the mail.

Do you think the cannonball is live?

 

[chubachus]

Do you think the cannonball is live?

I would doubt it, but then again you never know. I always wonder if it is possible for cannonball holes to corrode over or be filled in by some restorer and then show no evidence it was ever there. I don't know enough about shells/balls to give a definitive answer on that though. You should go ask at the Relic Hunting/Collecting board for more: https://civilwartalk.com/forums/relic-hunting-collecting.92/

 

[Salterr]

Do you think the cannonball is live?

It's a solid shot there's no fuse

 

[imagecollector]

I want to sell both my cannonball and the civil war photo.

Does anyone want to make me an offer

send me a private message...I am interested in both