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  • 20-05-2012 6:17pm
    #1
    leesaunders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Hello, i'm looking for some information on this shell case please. I know it was made by Pierces foundry in Wexford, but i would like to know what would have fired it etc. Its approx 9 inches tall, just short of 3 inches wide at the top and just over 3 inches wide at the bottom. It has some letters and numbers stamped onto it but some are hard to make out. Over the copper ring is stamped 12-1918.
    Down the side is stamped AT 579 25 and a arrow pointing up with a semi circle under it. The rest of the marking are hard to make out.
    Any help would be great, thanks in advance
    Lee.


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  • #2
    Step23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Step23


    3 inches wide, sounds like it could be from a 15 pounder field gun.
    The copper ring is called the driving band, it engages with the rifling in the barrell to make the shell spin.

    The shell itself would have been filled with steel balls, the fuse (which is missing) would set off a charge inside the shell casing a spray of lethal sharpnel and steel balls.

    Its a very nice shell, even more so it was made in Ireland.


  • #3
    leesaunders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭leesaunders


    Thanks for the info!! Its nice alright, the father in law just polished it up for me recently, for years it sat in my back garden covered in rust. I was amazed when it turned out like it did. Have you any idea of value?


  • #4
    Step23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Step23


    Valuation is a bit tricky, I'm not sure what shells like this would normally sell for. An educated guess would be possibly be between 40 - 70 euro?


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