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Three Pound Ketchum Hand Grenade With Great Provenance. One fin with patent date mark Aug 20, 1861. Another fin with period ...
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Three Pound Ketchum Hand Grenade With Great Provenance. One fin with patent date mark Aug 20, 1861. Another fin with period ink script note, "Hand Grenade". The third fin with "C. L. Hayes/ Before Petersburg, Va./ July 30, 1864" and fourth fin with "Hand grenade used during the Civil War by men in storming the enemy's works. Presented by C. L. Hayes Wm M. C. Philbrick." Missing the plunger other wise fine with excellent fins. Although, rare as they are, these grenades do occasionally surface, it is nearly unheard of for an example to appear with a period history of use. Extremely rare.Auction Info
2008 November Signature Civil War Auction #6015 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
November, 2008
20th-21st
Thursday-Friday
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