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  1. Super rare to come across - Non-excavated 36 Cal. Savage Navy Model revolver cartridge with original skin containing powder intact.  Also a perfect excavated example from here at Stones River.  Both would be a fantastic compliment to display with your nice Savage Navy Model revolver.--$195.SOLD
  2. Mint condition complete non-excavated Maynard 36 cal. Sporting Rifle brass cartridge.  These are almost always recovered from Confederate Cavalry sites.--$95.
  3. Very, very rare to recover.  Excavated original 58 cal. minie with COMPLETE skin cartridge.  It is rare to excavate a cartridge with even fragments of the skin -- Super tough to recover one with ALL the skin cartridge intact.--$95.
  4. shaler.JPG (55597 bytes)Excellent condition excavated dropped 3-piece Shaler bullet recovered all together.  Really nice example.--$125.
  5. fuzedbandb.JPG (60438 bytes)Two fuzed excavated 69 cal. Confederate buck and ball projectiles.  What caused this to happen was the paper wrapped cartridges were in the edge of the camp fire and got hot enough to start melting and fuze - but not hot enough to totally melt down.  It takes just the right circumstances for this to happen and it's rare to dig a fuzed example.--$45. for both
  6. 8carvandchew.JPG (64271 bytes)8carvandchewchw.JPG (62426 bytes)8carvandchewpkr.JPG (52648 bytes)Group of 8 carved and chewed bullets recovered from both Union and Confederate camps here at Stones River.  The group includes 3 chewed {hospital or "medicine"} bullets, 2 nipple protectors made from bullets, Three carved bullets including one carved into a little "Pecker".  Nice little group.--$125. for all. 
  7. csbelgium.JPG (47378 bytes)Huge 69 cal. Confederate "Belgium" minie recovered from The Battle of Shiloh.  The bullet is a drop but does have some little marks from stones in the ground, etc.--$25.
  8. spencercart.JPG (53820 bytes)Nice condition excavated Spencer carbine cartridge.  This was recovered from the position of "Wilder's Brigade" at The Battle of Hoover's Gap, TN.--$25.SOLD
  9. billinghurstclip.JPG (49665 bytes)billinghurstclipwcart.JPG (61823 bytes)Quite rare original 25 round clip for the "Bellinghurst - Requa" Battery Gun.  The clip is in very nice condition and still hinges perfectly.  The "Bellinghurst - Requa" clip alone without cartridge--$295.
  10. musketoon.JPG (74360 bytes)musketoonbase.JPG (49327 bytes)This is a bullet you rarely see recovered.  It is a dropped 69 cal. two ring "Musketoon".  It was recovered near Port Hudson, LA. and is a MM - # 293.  The bullet has good patina with it's only negative being that the base is a little off circular.  You won't dig one of these every day.--$65.
  11. 36maynard.JPG (77845 bytes)Quite rare excavated drop 36 cal. Maynard carbine projectile.  These are almost always recovered from Confederate cavalry sites and is a bullet you rarely dig.--$35.
  12. fieldcast58.JPG (24696 bytes)fieldcast.JPG (28396 bytes)fieldcastnose.JPG (20433 bytes) Beautiful condition drop Confederate field nose cast 58 cal. minie.  It has a clipped nose and a "monster" mold line.--$18. 
  13. 33proj.JPG (29502 bytes)33projectiles.JPG (29848 bytes)Group of 33 freshly dug drop Union and Confederate carbine projectiles.  Some of the different type projectiles in the group are Starr, Merrill. Sharps, Spencer, Burnside, German Suhl, Colt Revolving Rifle, and Maynard.  The group is priced at less than $3. per bullet.--$95.

  14. wmcleaners.JPG (36199 bytes)35 nice condition dug drop 58 cal. Type III Williams Cleaner bullets.  Many of these still have the zinc cleaner washer intact.  They were dug years ago by Pam and Allen Clark along Hood's campaign from Spring Hill to the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.  I am seeing nice Williams Cleaner bullets commonly priced at $5.-$10. each.--$135.

  15. 3buckball.JPG (30220 bytes)69 cal. Confederate 3-buck "Buck & Ball" projectile.  I dug this "Buck & Ball" along the Confederate retreat route out of Middle Tennessee enroute to Chickamauga.  The bucks were originally loose packed with the ball using paper wrap.  They were loose in the hole when dug, and I have glued them in their correct position for display.--$15.

  16.  mixedbullets.JPG (33975 bytes)bulkbullets.JPG (82496 bytes)I've just purchased 5000 mixed excavated Civil War bullets.  Bag of 50 mixed dropped and fired U.S. and C.S. bullets-each bag includes a variety of different type bullets at a low cost of $1.70 per bullet--$85. a bag.

  17. 1200.7.jpg (7285 bytes)MM 299--54 cal. German Suhl. This is a nice dropped. These were used almost exclusively by Southern cavalry--$10.
  18. 1200.8.jpg (12135 bytes)We have various Sharps bullets varying from 52 to 54 cal. We have a number of variations--$10 each.
  19. Bullets.jpg (16536 bytes)Collection of 6 completely different Civil War bullets in a 5" x 6" display glass case--$35.
  20. Burnside.jpg (5052 bytes).54 cal. Burnside carbine. We have this bullet in both MM #119(flat based) and the MM #(dished base)--$7.50.
  21. ColtRevRifle.jpg (4636 bytes)MM #116 .56 cal. Colt Revolving Rifle. This is a nice dropped example with smooth white patina--$7.50.
  22. Joslyn.jpg (3577 bytes)MM #470 This is a .52 cal Joslyn carbine. Perfect dropped example with nice white patina--$7.50.

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Larry Hicklen

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