WOODWARD GETTYSBURG LAMP USING A CONFEDERATE 12-POUND SIDE-LOADING SPHERICAL CASE SHOT

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Local gunsmith Edward Woodward turned his talents to the relic business not long after the battle, selling relics picked up here to veterans and visitors as early as 1865, and is particularly known for his engraved artillery rounds and his desk sets. In this case he used a scarce Confederate 4.52” spherical case shot for a 12-pound gun showing the characteristic side plug used for filling it. He engraved it very nicely in script, “Gettysburg 1863,” applied three small brass legs, removed the fuze plug and inserted a brass base for the wick assembly, and capped it with an attractive cranberry glass chimney. This likely dates to the 1890s given that the adjusting knob of the wick assembly shows it was imported from Germany, though “shell lamps” from Gettysburg were displayed as early as 1864 at the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair. In this case Woodward made a great piece of folk art, and adhered to the Victorian notion of such relics displayed around the house combining the historic, the aesthetic, and the useful. For veterans of the battle, they likely had a special appeal as mementos of the greatest experience of their lives. On an ordnance note, spherical case shot was intended to be a more lethal anti-personnel round, with shot inside adding to shrapnel from fragmentation of the shell itself. All of which adds something to whole idea of beating swords into ploughshares inherent in turning weapons of war into domestic, peaceful tools. The condition is excellent.  [sr][ph:m]

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