Bullet ID help...i want it to be a Whitworth

Stef45

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Any help would be great! Cannonballguy hopefully will come to the rescue. I want it to be a Whitworth but i don't know if its that old. It also looks like a 5 or S in the bottom.

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sorry but not a Whitworth. It would be around 1.30 to 1.40 long...I have know idea what it is.
 

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For many years we civil war bullet diggers & collectors hoped it was a rare variety of Whitworth bullet. But bullet-book authors James and Dean Thomas found proof that it is an 1876-1880s Sharps metal-cartridge bullet. Your bullet is shown as bullet #66A in their book "A Handbook Of Civil War Bullets & Cartridges."
 

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For many years we civil war bullet diggers & collectors hoped it was a rare variety of Whitworth bullet. But bullet-book authors James and Dean Thomas found proof that it is an 1876-1880s Sharps metal-cartridge bullet. Your bullet is shown as bullet #66A in their book "A Handbook Of Civil War Bullets & Cartridges."

haha and what is that!?
 

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"James and Dean Thomas found proof that it is an 1876-1880s Sharps metal-cartridge bullet......."
 

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