DANNER MUSEUM CS 4.52” 12 POUNDER BORMANN FUSED SPHERICAL SHELL USED AS A BOOK END

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Item Code: 910-16

This historic projectile is from the collection of the late L.M. Buehler of Gettysburg. This collection of projectiles represents one of the most amazing finds we have encountered since the first group we acquired from a GAR Post collection on Cape Cod, MA in the spring of 1987. These historic projectiles were once part of the now dispersed L.M. Buehler Collection, which was once on display in the first battlefield relic museum in Gettysburg, owned and operated by J. A. Danner. This collection and Danner’s museum contained some of the earliest known documented battlefield relics ever assembled.

The Danner Museum was located at 34-36 Baltimore Street at the present site of Ping’s Café, and was also located near the Fahnestock building, opposite Ping’s Café, as well as other locations on the first block of Baltimore Street.

Joel Danner was one of the first local entrepreneurs to sell battlefield relics. The local Gettysburg Star Sentinel did an article on Danner’s unique war relics; this paper is dated 5th April 1864! It is currently unknown when Danner first opened a museum, it is believed to have been some time in the 1865– 1870 time period. Danner would continue to operate a relic museum displaying and selling artifacts until his death on 27th April 1904.

Sometime after his death the museum was put up for auction. Large portions of his museum were purchased by the Pennsylvania State Museum; today a portion is still on display at the William Penn Memorial Museum in Harrisburg, PA, the Jennie Wade Museum on Baltimore St. in Gettysburg. Other locations are a GAR post on Cape Cod, The Soldiers and Sailors Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and many GAR posts throughout the north eastern United States.

This particular collection of artillery projectiles were once part of The Sedgwick GAR Post Number 42 located in Lebanon, PA. The collection would remain on display until it was donated to the Lebanon County Historical Society at 924 Cumberland St., Lebanon, PA. Museum records indicate the collection was received in 1933. It would reside in the Historical Society’s collection until it was deaccessioned by the museum and sold at Auction in October 2015.

Has Lebanon County Historical Society Museum number “2378B-9” painted on the projectile. Missing the Bormann fuse. The threads for the underplug have been removed to allow a flat metal stand to be screwed into the threads. Nice smooth dark patina to surface. An early battlefield find.  [ws]

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