Cannonball guy, a shell for you to look at

[gsxraddict]

This is a 2.25" shell, I thought it was a baby Armstrong. Now I'm thinking it may be Spanish American post war.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It's important that your studded 2.25" shell has a flat base, instead of a "rounded-edge" base. If the studs are copperbrass, it is an Armstrong type, from the 1860s through 1880s. (I should mention, no 2.25"-caliber Armstrong projectiles made it across the Atlantic Ocean during the civil war.) It the studs are lead or a similar "White-Metal" alloy it is French. (But none of those made it across the Atlantic during the civil war.) The similar-looking Spanish-American war one, which had lead/White-Metal studs and was made in Spain, had a rounded-edge base.

 

[gsxraddict]

Thanks for responding. So it's a French shell, no telling how old.

Disappointing, but I figured it wasn't confederate.