Need help identifying a civil war bullet? and a pipe stem?

[spudnutt]

So I've been having some pretty good luck at recent site I found with some research. I've been pulling up relics dating in age from the colonial period through the Indian Wars in the 1870's. I recently found a few of these bullets that I haven't been able to match up to any others on the internet. So, I've come to the experts!

The bullet is made of lead and measures 1/2'' long by 1/4'' wide. It appears to have 2 rings.

Also, I dug up this piece of pipe stem. I'd like to know its approximate age so I could date the various garbage pits I've come across.
I'm not sure what the pipe is made of but the width of the stem is 1/4'' and the drilled hole is 1/16''. At the base of the stem where it meets the bowl it reads L. Frolet and then an S under that but its broken off at that point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[allan]

You can look for them here http://www.corinthcivilwarrelics.com/bullets.html

[duggap]

I think I can see crimp mark on your bullet. If that be the case than it is not civilwar era. That method of loading bullets didn't come along until after the war.

[TheCannonballGuy]

Definitely 20th-century. Looks like a .22 Long Rifle bullet. Whenever you see lots of tiny short parallel ridges inside a bullet's body-groove, it dates from no earlier than the 1880s. It is called a "reeded-groove" a characteristic which has been manufactured from the 1880s through all the decades up to today.

[High Plains Digger]

I found two like CBG's in my buffalo wallow. Thought I was the top dog of the high plains. Then I learned they weren't "old" enough to get me into the Who's Who of Bullet Diggers. The grey instead of white was a give away, but I thought that maybe the different dirt treated the bullet more kindly. Not the case.

[Monty]

I agree not a Civil War bullet. A quarter inch would be about .250" Need to "mike" the bullet to see what the true diameter is. Could be a .25-35 Rifle bullet? Usually found in a lever action Winchester rifle. Monty