Schenkl Artillery Shell / SOLD

Description

Schenkl Artillery Shell – Inventory Number: ART 458 / On-hold  Union 10- Schenkl shell. These projectiles were manufactured in the Federal arsenals, following the design of John P. Schenkl.  The rounded nose on this pattern indicates it is case-shot.  The Schenkl employed a papier-mâché’ sabot which helped decrease humidity-related swelling. Since the papier-mâché’ sabot fit so tightly in the bore, no flame could pass to light the conventional time fuze. A self-igniting fuze was used to correct this problem. However, the combination fuze worked very poorly with only approximately a 55% success rate accounting for this unexploded example.   This shell has seven raised ribs on the tapered cone.  Very nice example.   Inventory Number: ART 458 / On-hold