✅ SOLVED Fuses

[fyrffytr1]

Can you all give me any information on these fuses? They came from the Sharpsburg, Md. area, battle of Antietam.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

Three more pictures.

 

[duggap]

I think the first one is a Hotchkiss, I think the second is a Dyer, and I think the third one is a Parrott Time Fuse Adapter. I don't hold myself out as an expert, so until the Cannonball Guy comes along this will give you something to think about. But Pete is the man to see about shells and fuse adapters.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Yep CBG is the man! You got a great group of fuzes

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Duggap is correct about the basic ID of each of your three civil war artillery shell fuzes. Here is their more specific ID. By the way, all three of them are yankee fuzeplugs.
#1 is a brass Type 2 Hotchkiss timefuze plug for Case-Shot shells.
#2 is a solder-alloy Dyer timefuze plug for 3" Dyer Case-Shot shells.
#3 is a zinc Parrott Long-range timefuze plug, for Parrott & Read-Parrott 20-pounder and 30-pounder shells. (I've never seen nor heard of this Long-range version being found in a 10-pounder.)

 

[DCMatt]

Can you all give me any information on these fuses? They came from the Sharpsburg, Md. area, battle of Antietam.

Those are terrific finds from Sharpsburg. Knowing they are Yankee should make it fairly easy to figure out who was being shot at and who was doing the shooting.

I've hunted in that area a few times over the years and never got any large target relics like those. Most of the area surrounding the battlefield has been hunted to death for 40+ years.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Those are terrific finds from Sharpsburg. Knowing they are Yankee should make it fairly easy to figure out who was being shot at and who was doing the shooting.

I've hunted in that area a few times over the years and never got any large target relics like those. Most of the area surrounding the battlefield has been hunted to death for 40+ years.

My brothers and I hit it pretty good back in the day! There was a lot more privately owned land then and we had permission on a lot of it.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Duggap is correct about the basic ID of each of your three civil war artillery shell fuzes. Here is their more specific ID. By the way, all three of them are yankee fuzeplugs.
#1 is a brass Type 2 Hotchkiss timefuze plug for Case-Shot shells.
#2 is a solder-alloy Dyer timefuze plug for 3" Dyer Case-Shot shells.
#3 is a zinc Parrott Long-range timefuze plug, for Parrott & Read-Parrott 20-pounder and 30-pounder shells. (I've never seen nor heard of this Long-range version being found in a 10-pounder.)

Thanks for taking the time to ID these for me. I am going to put them in a small frame with a print out of your description.

 

[fyrffytr1]

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