Original British 1858 Armstrong Breech Loading Smooth Cannon Shell Hand Select:No mostly for bayonet drills

mostly for bayonet drills

This is the RED plume for the Horse Guard Regiment

These tumblers are British made and bear inspection stamps from the Henry Rifle Barrel Company

Original Item: These really are exciting

Original British 1858 Armstrong Breech Loading Smooth Cannon Shell Hand Select:No mostly for bayonet drillsOriginal Item: Nearly 150 years old these are Rare Projectiles for Armstrong Breech Loading Cannon. You probably know this already, but shell refers to a hollow iron or steel projectile, which could be filled with various materials. Common shells were filled with explosives and provided with a fuse to detonate them. Now, we call them explosive shell or, if the filling is a modern explosive instead of black powder, high explosive (HE) shell. The 1800s