Gettysburg Civil War Relic From Little Round Top Saddle 20th ME Area Musket Ball

Description

We are working as partners in conjunction with Gettysburg Relics to offer some very nice American Civil War relics for sale. The owner of Gettysburg Relics was the proprietor of Artifact at 777 on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg for a number of years, and we are now selling exclusively on eBay.
The Rosensteel collection of artifacts are not recent recoveries, and pre-date the 1960s.
They are not unlimited and when they are sold out, we cannot replace them.
The park still owns the majority of relics once owned by the Rosensteel Family.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - RECOVERED FROM 'THE SADDLE' - THE VALLEY BETWEEN LITTLE ROUND TOP AND BIG ROUND TOP (
a relatively small area which is essentially the ground in front of the 83rd Pennsylvania and 20th Maine defenses on July 2nd.)
- A fired musket ball or artillery case shot ball with a short tail (likely case shot as it Registers in at about .64 caliber on our calipers)
This
relic
was found at a RARE and Iconic site at Gettysburg - in The Valley (known as the saddle) between Little Round Top and Big Round Top, a relatively small area which is essentially the ground in front of the 83rd PA and 20th Maine defenses on July 2nd.
This artifact was a part of the collection of Iva Rosensteel-Rider (
Born in 1887, died in 1964), sister of George Rosensteel (founder of the Gettysburg National Museum and the famous Electric Map) so the provenance could not be better.
The original location information that she kept with the relics indicated that this artifact was found in the Saddle between Little Round Top and Big Round Top.
This is the first time that this artifact is being offered for public sale and we feel very privileged in the opportunity to offer it. The Rosensteels were, of course, the most famous artifact collecting family in Gettysburg and the bulk of the relics on display at today's Gettysburg National Park Visitor Center come from the Rosensteels.
A provenance letter will be provided with this relic.
We include as much documentation with the relics as we possess. This includes copies of tags if there are original identification tags or maps, as well as a signed letter of provenance with the specific recovery information.
All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic, and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Some land on Battlefields that is now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, was acquired after the items were recovered. We will not sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally.
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