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Iron grapeshot with iron nail inside, 1600s-1700s.

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Iron grapeshot with iron nail inside, 1600s-1700s.
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Iron grapeshot with iron nail inside, 1600s-1700s. 31.1 grams, 2" long. Simple musketballs were not enough to do significant damage, so they were eventually molded with all kinds of shrapnel embedded inside (in this case a small, square-shanked nail, the lead ball lightly encrusted), despite the obvious limitations to aerodynamics. With Monaco Auctions photo-certificate.