✅ SOLVED Fuse????

[Gunrunner61]

Found this yesterday at a place thats given up alot of CW artifacts, Just wondering if this could be a fuse? Thanks in Advance......HH

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Technically speaking, it is an artillery timefuze adapter plug. The paper-bodied timefuze fit into the 1/2-inch hole in the adapter plug's center. The timefuze was ignited by the cannon's firing-blast. (The paper-bodied timefuze is what caused the shell to explode, so the metal adapter plug "technically" is not the fuze ...but just about everybody calls them a fuze.)

There are many varieties of civil war artillery timefuze adapter plugs. Your fuzeplug is a Confederate version. More specifically, it is the short-bodied version made for use in explosive cannonballs. (A longer-bodied version was made for the cylindrical (bullet-shaped) shells, used in Rifled cannons, because those had longer range than a cannonball and thus used a longer-bodied timefuze.)

The specific version you found first shows up on battlefields in Spring 1863, and continued in use until the very end of the war, in 1865.

Speaking as a 38-year civil war artillery shell hunter & digger... congratulations on finding your first Confederate artillery fuze!

 

[got2dig]

YEP, Greg that is a what you thought.
Very Nice now go and get the ball. HH

 

[Gunrunner61]

Technically speaking, it is an artillery timefuze adapter plug. The paper-bodied timefuze fit into the 1/2-inch hole in the adapter plug's center. The timefuze was ignited by the cannon's firing-blast. (The paper-bodied timeefuze is what caused the shell to explode, so the metal adapeter plug "technically" is not the fuze ...but just about everybody calls them a fuze.)

There are many varieties of civil war artillery timefuze adapter plugs. Your fuzeplug is a Confederate version. More specifically, it is the short-bodied version made for use in explosive cannonballs. (A longer-bodied version was made for the cylindrical (bullet-shaped) shells, used in Rifled cannons, because those had longer range than a cannonball and thus used a longer-bodied timefuze.)

The specific version you found first shows up on battlefields in Spring 1863, and continued in use until the very end of the war, in 1865.

Speaking as a 38-year civil war artillery shell hunter & digger... congratulations on finding your first Confederate artillery fuze!

Thank you CBG, you have no idea how long I've been looking for ANYTHING assosiated with a Cannonball or arty shell YEEEEE HAWWWWW............HH

P.S.
And It's Confederate! Cool.......

 

[TNGUNS]

WTG my friend.....killer find. TheCannonBallGuy had that puppy nailed down to a T. Feel like a proud uncle.

 

[Kayleealways]

Wow. Congrats on that. Never know what you got. HH

 

[Valley Ranger]

Great find!