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« on: July 28, 2006, 05:06:05 pm »
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   I found this cannister round some time ago on the Nevada/California border on the California side.  It is a round for a four inch mountain howitzer.  I heard that a four inch mountain howitzer was found recently by a rancher.  He was plowing and there is was.  Imagine that!
     I doubt if this ammo is from the Fremont Cannon cache  that is buried somewhere in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains because evidence indicates that cache is further south.

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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2006, 02:18:56 am »
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Are they lead or iron.  If they are lead then it is case shot and they were held inside a arty round..if they are iron then they are cannister.  Thats true in most cases..there were some lead Cannister rounds.. but most were lead..there Ferderals during the CW used many iron type cannister rounds.

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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2006, 02:41:08 pm »
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Dean,
     The balls are lead.  When I first found the piece I thought it was a can of musket balls that fell off a wagon or something.  
    Whether it is called case or cannister I do not know.  It seems you know more about this than I do.
    My nephew has been a museum director for the U.S. military for many years both in Europe and the U.S. He is the one who told me it was not merely a can of musket balls but a cannister round.  He told me the piece is prior to the civil war.
    A mountain howitzer in the Nevada state museum in Carson City has a barrel that would accomodate the round.  I emailed the museum about the piece and thought I might donate it so that it could set next to the little cannon.  I never heard back from the museum so I will hang onto it.  
    The howitzer itself may or may not be the one that John Fremont, Kit Carson etc. left on their journey snowy journey across the Sierra.  

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 07:26:08 am »
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I just looked at the photo again..if that is the can you found them in then yea, it is a canister round and very rare and in great shape..the can is worth far more than the balls.

Can you post a photo of the bottom and lower side of the can?



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Hey dandequille, still waiting on that picture of the canister.

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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2009, 04:54:16 pm »
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From the land of the Bluenose....not your everyday find.  Congrats.

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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2009, 02:20:26 am »
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thats one sweet find.

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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2009, 12:55:54 pm »
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Great find well done.

I wouldn't like to have got in the way of that when it was fired.

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« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2009, 01:16:48 am »
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yeah please post some more pictures that is an awesome and rare find..congrats


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yeah please post some more pictures that is an awesome and rare find..congrats


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