✅ SOLVED Need Bullet ID

[Henry2]

Anyone have a clue as to what these are? Thought maybe cleaner bullets but now I'm second guessing that.

 

[BosnMate]

I'm far from being an expert, but I used to own a breech loading paper cartridge Sharps Carbine, and that's what your bullet looks like, the projection is to tie the paper cartridge to. Here are a couple of pictures.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

All three of your bullets are "unfinished" standard .52-caliber Sharps Rifle/Carbine bullets, from the civil war era. They are not the tie-ring-base (also called "Ringtail") version, because the flared base on that type is much shorter (closer to the bottom of the bullet's main body). See the bullet photo below, which shows an actual tie-ring-base .52 Sharps bullet. Yours are raw out of the bulletcasting-mold, having the casting-sprue not yet cut off the bullet's base. I don't have a photo of a .52 Sharps bulletmold, but the bulletmold in the other photo shows what caused the flared casting-sprue on your bullets.

 

[EccentricInTexas]

Neat finds, did you find them all in the same spot?

 

[Henry2]

Thanks for the ID