PRE-CIVIL WAR OR CIVIL WAR HOT SHOT TONGS

PRE-CIVIL WAR OR CIVIL WAR HOT SHOT TONGS

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Item Code: 2026-9336

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Another scarce piece from the artillery section of a respected older collection we recently acquired, much of which came directly from Bannerman’s island or their Blue Point Long Island operation. This is a simple, but robust set of iron tongs with pincers having a flat inner surface, used to grab “hot shot,” iron solid shot that had been heated in a furnace to a red heat and used to set fire to wood structures in fortifications or cities or used by a shore facility against wooden warships.

These measure 20-inches overall and show rough forging, though the lower portions of the handles were rounded for a better grip. The pincers are particularly wide and thick, necessary for their insertion into the furnace and handling of the red-shot shot. They are in very good condition, showing a deep gray color with some superficial red rust in places, but only shallow corrosion. This is accompanied by the collector’s typewritten tag indicating he had purchased this set from Bannerman’s Island in 1965 and the identification had been verified by their manager, Jim Hogan. We show a photo of one of the two hot-shot furnaces at Fort Sumter, with stacks of cannon balls to one side and two soldiers standing atop its chimney in the midst of the fort’s ruins.   [sr][ph:L]

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