3" "Schenkl" Artillery Shell / Sold

3" “Schenkl” Artillery Shell - Inventory Number: ART 326 / SOLD

DIAMETER:  2.90 inches

GUN:  3-inch wrought iron (ordnance) rifle

LENGTH:  10 1/8 inches

WEIGHT:  8 pounds without sabot

CONSTRUCTION:  Case shot

SABOT:  Papier-mâché'

FUZING:  Schenkl  percussion

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.  A portion of a fuse with patent info is included.

Inventory Number: ART 326 / SOLD