This historic projectile is from the collection of the late L.M. Buehler of Gettysburg. The L.M. Buehler Collection 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.

Sometime after Mr. Danner’s 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 and other locations such as the Civil War Library and Museum of Philadelphia.

The origins of the Civil War Library and Museum date back to 1865 just after the Civil War ended when veteran officers of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps gathered in Philadelphia to form the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ("MOLLUS") as the first chartered Civil War institution in America.

In 1888, the organization incorporated as the War Library and Museum to preserve its members’ military and personal items in perpetuity.

Over the course of time, The Civil War Library & Museum was renamed twice including as the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia and most recently as the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia. On August 2, 2008, the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia permanently closed its building at 1805 Pine Street in anticipation of moving to The First Bank of the United States building on 3rd Street between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. That move never took place and ultimately the Civil War Museum's vast collection was entrusted to the stewardship of the Gettysburg Foundation and the National Constitution Center.

The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia owned what many believed to be the largest inventory of Union Army materials outside of government stewardship. The Civil War Museum had a priceless collection of treasures that included 7,000 original photographs, a library of approximately 13,000 volumes, and over 2,900 artifacts that included firearms, edged weapons, uniforms, paintings, accouterments, flags, and other artifacts related to the "War of the Rebellion."

The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia served as the oldest chartered Civil War institution in the country, and its Museum on Pine Street previously offered three floors of exhibits from 1922-2008.

The exterior of this shell has a surface that is smooth and in very clean condition. The Bormann fuse has been drilled through the center for deactivation but the time graduations are still visible.

Shell is mounted on its original wooden sabot which has been painted a light orange. The top rim of the sabot shows some of the dark arsenal paint used on the shell.

Holding the shell to the sabot is the original four-armed tin harness with circular top. These straps are attached to the wooden sabot by eight tacks. Two, one above the other, are hammered through the bottom of each strap. Only one of the upper tacks remains while all four of the bottom tacks are present. Two of the bottom tacks have come loose from their holes. The is also an old 2.00 inch chip in the wooden circular base of the sabot.

One of the straps has a badly worn museum accession number.

Truly a rare item with good provenance.  [ad] [ph:L]

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