Two Southern Cannonballs.

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Two 12 Lb. Cannonballs with copper fuse holders for use with paper time fuses.
One of these has a hole with cover to place shrapnel in. (Round Lead Balls.)
The other has no hole, but would have had just gun powder in it.
The one on the left found near Richmond, Virginia in 1961 by digger/dealer Frederick Morgan,
and the one on the right found near Gettysburg.

 

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See the one on the right. It was painted black probably many years ago.
Some collectors painted these iron artillery projectiles with rust resisting black
paint around 1968-1974. I was into artillery projectiles in those days, and so know.