Gettysburg Civil War Relic From The Trostle Farm Artillery Case Shot Rosensteel

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 bullets are not recent recoveries, and they pre-date the 1960s. They are not unlimited. This particular grouping, recovered from the Trostle Farm, is very small and we have very few artifacts left from this location.
The park still owns the majority of relics once owned by the Rosensteel Family.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - RECOVERED ON THE TROSTLE FARM - FROM THE ROSENSTEEL FAMILY COLLECTION (We have very few items left from this location) - A very nice relic condition musket ball or artillery case shot ball with some interesting marks/indentations, likely case shot as it registers at about .65 caliber on our calipers.
This artifact was found on the Trostle Farm at Gettysburg, PA. This artifact was a part of the collection of Iva Rosensteel-Rider (Born in 1887 and 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. This is the first time that this artifact is being offered for public sale and I 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.
'The Trostle farm is south of Gettysburg on what is now United States Avenue. The farm was owned by Peter Trostle. His son Abraham, Abraham’s wife Catherine, and their nine children occupied it during the battle. The 134 acre farm included a new frame house, brick barn, corn crib, wagon shed, springhouse, and a brick smokehouse.
During the battle
Major General Daniel Sickles used the farm as his headquarters after he advanced his Third Army Corps to the line of the Emmitsburg Road on July 2nd. He was wounded in the field to the west of the barn, where a monument now stands.
The Trostles were abruptly forced from their home during the fighting. They left dinner on the table, which was enjoyed by Sickles’ staff. Like many of their neighbors, the Trostles returned to find most of their belongings looted or destroyed.
The 9th Massachusetts Battery fought a desperate last stand on the farm. At least sixteen dead battery horses were in the front yard and over a hundred on the farm. Damage to property and real estate was estimated a ,500 in a claim filed after the war, but it appears no compensation was ever paid.
The Trostle heirs sold the farm to the Park Service in 1899. You can still see battle damage, including the famous shell hole in the brickwork of the barn. The Park Service uses the house as a dorm for college history interns doing summer studies at the park.'
We include as much documentation with the relics as we possess. This includes copies of tags if there are original identification tags, additional 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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