Sold for:
$2,460
$2,460
Civil War Naval Primer Box, c. 1861-65, brown-painted wooden dovetailed box, on the top is stenciled PRIMERS/800/ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE/PUT IN THE MAGAZINE. , and on the front NAVAL LABORATORY/WASHINGTON. , inside the cover is stenciled ORDNANCE LABORATORY/U.S.N. YARD/WASHINGTON , with a paper label glued inside with a handwritten note Fort Macon, NC./april 1862./Presented to Sergt. J.E. Fuller./clerk to chief of ordnance./Dept of North Carolina , inside of box lined with tin, ht. 7 1/2, lg. 9 1/2, dp. 8 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-03
