Original British 1858 Armstrong Breech Loading Smooth Cannon Shell Hand Select:Yes these are ideal for collectors

these are ideal for collectors

which could be filled with various materials

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as they would have in the El Alemain Campaign

The serial number no doubt refers to the individual soldier

Original British 1858 Armstrong Breech Loading Smooth Cannon Shell Hand Select:Yes these are ideal for collectorsOriginal Item: Nearly 150 years old these are Rare Projectiles for Armstrong Breech Loading Cannon. You probably know this already, but shell refers to a hollow iron or steel projectile, which could be filled with various materials. Common shells were filled with explosives and provided with a fuse to detonate them. Now, we call them explosive shell or, if the filling is a modern explosive instead of black powder, high explosive (HE) shell. The 1800s