Confederate 12 Pound Case Shot Shield’s Museum Gettysburg / SOLD

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Confederate 12 Pound Case Shot Shield’s Museum Gettysburg – Inventory Number: CON 361 / SOLD This shell was formerly of the Shields Museum – The Shields Museum stood along Route 30 just west of Gettysburg and housed a large collection of artifacts related to the battle until its closure in the 1980’s.  This shell was then sold by Redding’s Auction of Gettysburg to a private collector who has retained it until now. Ott Shields amassed one of the earliest and well-known collections of Gettysburg artifacts.  In 1918, he opened a private museum that featured the “Shields Collection,” one of the few documented Gettysburg collections obtained by local families (Rosensteel; Danner; Wert; Mumper; Ziegler, etc.). The Shields Museum closed in the 1980s and the collection was sold at auction on November 16, 1985.  Offering over 600 lots “comprised mostly of Gettysburg battlefield pick-ups relics,” the auction attracted several hundred Civil War collectors, dealers, and museum buyers.     Inventory Number: CON 361 / SOLD