Smithfield55
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- Dec 9, 2010
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Hello -- I'm new to the forum so forgive any breaches of protocol -- Let me know if I'm posting inappropriately.
I am purchasing a "cannonball" as a gift for my eccentric brother. The seller claims that it is most likely a Revolutionary era shot. I am attaching photos (I think, I hope). It is ~5" in diameter and weighs ~20#, which seems to check out as solid cast iron. (Since it's solid, can I be pretty sure it's safe to handle??)
Unfortunately there is no history on it. I'm buying it from a guy in small town Colorado who bought it at an estate sale in Nebraska.
Assuming the photos come through on this post, you can see a variety of irregularities -- from casting? from weathering? from alteration?
Would appreciate any thoughts from this august group as to whether it's even real, and, if so, whether it's most likely Civil War era or Revolutionary era, or something else altogether.
Thanks!
I am purchasing a "cannonball" as a gift for my eccentric brother. The seller claims that it is most likely a Revolutionary era shot. I am attaching photos (I think, I hope). It is ~5" in diameter and weighs ~20#, which seems to check out as solid cast iron. (Since it's solid, can I be pretty sure it's safe to handle??)
Unfortunately there is no history on it. I'm buying it from a guy in small town Colorado who bought it at an estate sale in Nebraska.
Assuming the photos come through on this post, you can see a variety of irregularities -- from casting? from weathering? from alteration?
Would appreciate any thoughts from this august group as to whether it's even real, and, if so, whether it's most likely Civil War era or Revolutionary era, or something else altogether.
Thanks!
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