emike123
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Just got back from a whirlwind trip to Virginia. There were a couple highlights, but I have got to say that the most awesome sights were at the White Oak Museum in Falmouth, VA (across the river from Fredericksburg). Anyone who has been there knows what I mean -- the finds from those camps are astounding. They include some unbelieveably rare bullets, some kind of mini (I am guessing ~.44 cal) mutant that looks like a super shrunk Archer shell (Von Lenke maybe?), four 4 piece Shalers along with about 200 regular ones, a CS Naval Explosive (mm530/531) as well as overwhelming quantity, literally more than 100,000 bullets. The documentation on find locations is terrific too. Like, the the triangle cavity 3 ringer were only found (in this area) in the camp of the 74th Pennsylvania, and so on and so on...
And they have an ID disk of a Corp. Ewing from Wisconsin, Bill.
From a different collector I saw three MM533s and an MM614. OMG!!
Also stopped in seven relic shops. Picked up about 15 bullets, maybe 4 or 5 of which were sufficiently better or different to go in my collection and the others ended up in my rack of doubles.
The Culpeper / Orange area was particularly beautiful as always despite the ever encroaching spread of development. Great to see some of the historical sites again as always.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Go Bears!!
And they have an ID disk of a Corp. Ewing from Wisconsin, Bill.
From a different collector I saw three MM533s and an MM614. OMG!!
Also stopped in seven relic shops. Picked up about 15 bullets, maybe 4 or 5 of which were sufficiently better or different to go in my collection and the others ended up in my rack of doubles.
The Culpeper / Orange area was particularly beautiful as always despite the ever encroaching spread of development. Great to see some of the historical sites again as always.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Go Bears!!