ORIGINAL UNOPENED PACK OF U.S. FRICTION PRIMERS - FRANKFORD ARSENAL - 1864

ORIGINAL UNOPENED PACK OF U.S. FRICTION PRIMERS - FRANKFORD ARSENAL - 1864

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Item Code: 1202-1343

This is an original, unopened package of Federal artillery friction primers. The pack consists of a drilled wood block, containing five friction primers, wrapped completely in dark blue paper. The blue wrapper had printed on the front surface, “5 / [image of primer] / FRICTION PRIMERS / FRANKFORD ARSENAL / 1864”. The printing was done in black ink which now makes many of these packs difficult to read. The rectangular package measures 2¼” long x 1½” wide x ¾” high. Package is sealed tight with cloth opening tab in place.

Friction primers are short copper tubes filled with black powder used to fire Civil War-era cannons. The primers were used by placing one into the vent hole at the breech of a cannon and pulling a jagged piece of wire (with a long rope lanyard) through the top of the primer to ignite a flammable compound. This, in turn, would ignite the powder charge in the artillery piece.

Entire paper box is in original condition and displays well. [stp][ph:L]

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