CASE, CARTRIDGE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date
- 1893
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 3.3
- Diameter
- 1.3
- Description
- 44. CAL. BRASS SHELL CASING. CYLINDRICAL BRASS TUBE WITH RIM OF BASE SLIGHTLY LARGER IN DIAMETER. PRIMER PIN IN CENTER OF BASE IS DENTED IN FROM BEING FIRED. ETCHED INTO BASE OF CASING IS "W.R.A. CO." AND "44 W.C.F.". PRINTED IN INK ON SIDE OF CASING IS "THIS CARTRIDGE KILLED DAVE AKERS DEC. 1893". BRASS HAS SLIGHT AMOUNT OF TARNISH.
- Subjects
- ARMAMENT-ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- ARTIFACT WAS COLLECTED BY DONOR'S FATHER. SEE P20000011001-GA FOR FAMILY HISTORY. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS INCLUDING SOME DONATIONS MADE BY JEAN JOHNSTONE (NEE POTTS). AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORIGINAL DONOR JEAN JOHNSTONE WAS CONDUCTED. WHEN ASKED IF SHE REMEMBERED THE ARTIFACT SHE STATED, “…WHEN JACK ELLIOT WAS RUNNING THIS MUSEUM AND I WAS HERE HE WAS GIVEN THE DUTY, IF YOU WILL, OR ASSIGNMENT TO CLEAR UP THE CATALOGUES FOR WHAT ARTIFACTS WERE HERE. …AND THEY WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF OFFERING IT TO OTHER MUSEUMS THAT SORT OF THING AND I’M NOT SURE IF THAT, IF THIS BULLET CAME FROM THAT COLLECTION BECAUSE IT WAS GETTING RID OF AND I BEING THE PERSON I AM COULDN’T STAND IT. … BUT I SAVED SOME THINGS BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER IF THIS WAS ONE OF THEM AND WE COULD NEVER PROVE THAT IT ACTUALLY WAS THE BULLET THAT KILLED DAVE ACRES.” ON THE RECORDED HISTORY OF IT BEING COLLECTED BY HER FATHER, “…IF IT [IS] TRUE IF MY FATHER HAD IT, I COULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO HIM BECAUSE I GAVE HIM A LOT OF THINGS, THAT I HAD GOT OUT OF THIS BUILDING. IF IT WASN’T THAT THEN HE WOULD HAVE COLLECTED IT ON HIS OWN AND HE’S LONG PASSED AWAY. WELL HE PASSED AWAY AFTER 1970 - NO HE DID, HE PASSED AWAY IN 1993 AND THIS WAS 1995. SO, IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT HE COLLECTED IT BUT HOW WE CAN PROVE IT, I DON’T KNOW. …I DID GIVE HIM SOME OTHER THINGS BUT - THE SADNESS OF ALL OF THAT IS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO COLLECTED IT… THE ORIGINAL GROUP, WAS THEY DIDN’T TAKE, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT - THEY KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT BUT THEY DIDN’T COLLECT WHY OR HOW THEY GOT IT…” “…IF DAD COLLECTED IT WELL HE COULD HAVE GOT IT, HE WAS A NUMISMATIST, A COIN COLLECTOR. AND HE COLLECTED SMALL ARTIFACTS FROM AND WOULD TAKE THEM IN TRADE FROM OTHER PEOPLE INSTEAD OF COINS OR WHATEVER AND SELL THEM A COIN AND TAKE AN ARTIFACT - AND SO I GOT A LOT OF TRINKETS THAT WAY SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT TOO… IT’S AN INTERESTING LITTLE PIECE. BUT I CAN’T PROVE IT, WHICH IS A SAD THING.” THE INTERVIEW AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN PERMANENT FILE P20000011001.
- Catalogue Number
- P19950001001
- Acquisition Date
- 1995-01
- Collection
- Museum
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