New addition

[Duane Pringle]

9 inch Dahlgren shell in premo condition.

 

[redbob]

Very nice.

 

[John Winn]

Fuse and all; very good. What's the story behind how you got it ?

 

[Legion Para]

@Duane Pringle:

Artillery enthusiasts would not have seen your thread in the New Recruits and Meets forum. I moved it to the Cannons and Artillery forum where more forum members will see it. Please continue to share your collection with us.

 

[UCVRelics]

Nice Shell. I doesn't appear to be of the DUG variety.

@Legion Para Thanks for moving the post

 

[redbob]

I believe that you have now moved from a mantle display to a floor display. Also if you need low cost bases to keep your balls from rolling; may I suggest short lengths of 1 1/2" pvc (for your small balls)and 2 or 2 1/2" pvc pipe for your larger ones. Just cut them into short lengths and paint them black so that they will blend into the background.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Sound good and yes it's a floor model

 

[Duane Pringle]

I purchased this one from bullet and shell Web site the fuse threads out easily great condition.

 

[Duane Pringle]

And yes your right redbob I didn't think I wanted a shell this big but I am definitely glad I added it now.

 

[UCVRelics]

And yes your right redbob I didn't think I wanted a shell this big but I am definitely glad I added it now.

@redbob it looks like the Iron Maiden disease has struck again.

 

[redbob]

@redbob it looks like the Iron Maiden disease has struck again.

It certainly does, he is definitely showing all of the signs.

 

[UCVRelics]

It certainly does, he is definitely showing all of the signs.

I'm going to shot cannon tomorrow and I'll post some video tomorrow night.

 

[Duane Pringle]

I am ate up with the iron maiden disease

 

[redbob]

I am ate up with the iron maiden disease

You could certainly be ate up with worse things, enjoy it and welcome to the club.

 

[UCVRelics]

You could certainly be ate up with worse things, enjoy it and welcome to the club.

Amen to that redbob, @Duane Pringle Be advised that if you ever move the movers will charge you 3 times to move your war room as they did me.

 

[3rd North Carolina]

that is a very nice cannon ball

 

[Duane Pringle]

This will probably be as heavy as I go in my collection not the easiest to move around 73 pounds pretty heavy for a shell. I am very happy to add this ball to my collection. Does anyone know if these were used against troops or just fortifications and iron clads? These Dahlgren guns were used in coastal fortifications as well on ships. I did read they were considered obsolete by the end of the 2nd year of the civil war they had progressed to bigger Dahlgren guns. I can't imagine trying to add a 15 inch shell to the collection.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Also read that the confederacy captured and used several of these guns.

 

[Legion Para]

This will probably be as heavy as I go in my collection not the easiest to move around 73 pounds pretty heavy for a shell. I am very happy to add this ball to my collection. Does anyone know if these were used against troops or just fortifications and iron clads? These Dahlgren guns were used in coastal fortifications as well on ships. I did read they were considered obsolete by the end of the 2nd year of the civil war they had progressed to bigger Dahlgren guns. I can't imagine trying to add a 15 inch shell to the collection.

Then a 'US 300-POUNDER PARROTT SHELL' is out of the question?

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/lot-2108-us-300-pounder-parrott-shell-55845/

 

[redbob]

At the point in your collecting life that you have to start using an automotive engine hoist to rearrange your collection, you really have to ask yourself if you have perhaps gone too far... and the answer is probably nope!!!