Grenade
- Object Name:
- Grenade
- Object ID:
- 1968.505.05.1
- Creator:
- Ketchum, William F.
- Date:
- 1861-1865
- Description:
- Hand Grenade Fin. Lightweight wooden grenade fin with rounded end for insertion into explosive shell, otherwise square and tapered. Four wing shaped pieces of pasteboard fitted into a wooden post; a small nail has been driven into end of post. One pasteboard wing of fin stamped, "PATENTED AUG. 20 1861."
- Material:
- Wood
Paper
Metal
Steel - Dimensions:
- W-3.7 L-10 inches
- Provenance:
- Handwritten note attached to pasteboard wing of fin reads, "A hand-grenade presented by Maj. J. D. Drew, 4 N.H. Vol. at Morris Island, S.C., November 24, 1863".
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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