Item 5001 - Section Drawing for the 155 mm Schneider Gun Carriage - This plan includes the assembled longitudal section of the 155 mm howitzer carriage, Model of 1918 (Schneider). The plan is dated September 29, 1917, and has signitures from the U.S. Army Ordnance Department indicating that it was approved. The section is dimensioned. The drawing is 23"x35".

Item 9012 - 24 Pounder Carriage Drawings, 1797 - Same as above, but reproduced on an 11" x 17" sheet.

Item 4019 - Wire-Wound Guns, 1884! A rare Document! - This is a copy of a rare 1884 publication entitled "A Few Words on Wire-Wound Guns" by W. E. Woodbridge. Woodbridge was  a  pioneer in the development steel wire-wound gun construction. Cannon built in accordance with his methods are reputed to have failed. This booklet includes a letter from Commodore Sicard of the U.S. Navy regarding a 6 inch breechloading gun made in accordance with Woodbridge's design indicating the defects in the system,Woodbridge's response to Sicard's comments and an extract from the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institutuion of Civil Engineers fromAugust 1884 (which is Woodbridge's comments on J.  A. Longridge's paper on Wire-Gun construction. This article gives some history of similar guns back to 1850 in the U.S., including a steel wire-wound gun developed in 1862 ). The work includes a plan, cross section and a dimensioned transverse section of a 6" breechloading rifle. This work involves the type of technological discussions that were occurring as the Spanish American War era navy was being built. The work is reproduced on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, 17 pages, total.

Item 4021 - Colt Automatic Gun! - This is a copy of a two rare publications concerning the Colt Automatic gun.  The first is taken from an 1898 manual and is entitled “Colt’s Automatic Gun,” By Lt. Cyrus S. Radford and  Lt. Stokeley Morgan and is taken fro the Hand-book on Naval Gunnery (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1898) .  This article discusses the mechanical operation of the 6 millimeter version of the weapon. The second article is “Colt’s Automatic Gun, Cal. 30,” reporduced from the Ordnance Instruction Book of the Gunners’ Mates School (United States Navy, 1917-1918) . This article discusses the mechanical operation of the 30 caliber version of the weapon, and includes info. on loading firing, dismounting and assembling, and contains a fold-out lengthwise section through the gun. .The work is reproduced on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, with the fold-out being on 11" x 17" paper, 9 pages, total.

Item 3006 -Christian Riots/Civil War artillery - Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society (Spring, 1961) containing two articles related to the Civil War.  The first is entitled "The Christiana Riot: An Evaluation of Its National Significance"  by Roderick Nash (the Christiana Riot, an 1851 skirmish between slaveowners and those opposed to them, is considered by historians to be be the first action of the impending Civil War).  The second article is entitled "Postscript to the Old Buck Cannon" by M. Luther Heisey recounts the final 1882 destruction of the famed Griffen Gun provided to the Democrats of Lancaster by its inventor, John Griffen. The first article is 26 pages long, and the second is 2 pages long (including endnotes in both cases).  This is an original copy of the Spring , 1961 publication, not a reprint. It is in excellent condition.  6" x 9"!

Item 3002 - We have an unusual set of relics available at the moment.  Recently our restorers were restoring an original Civil War artillery limber box. Portions of the wood bottom had to be replaced, however, some of the wood remained in good condition.  We have pieces of that wood now available. Pieces vary in size, but are about 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 3/4" thick. Who knows...was it inthis limber box that ammunition was taken to the ill-fated Cushing at Gettysburg, or puleld up Malvern Hill... Each piece comes with a certificate of authenticity

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