U.S. ARTILLERY FRICTION PRIMER

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Item Code: 981-50

Friction primers that are short tubes of metal inserted into a hole near the top of a longer tube that was filled with musket powder. The use of friction primers for cannon was to ignite the powder charge in the gun tube. This primer has the pull wire firmly attached. [ad]

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