US Parrott 200 pdr Shell (p. 192)

"Patent 1861" is stamped on the sabot.  This large sized projectile is unusual with a wooden fuze plug.  According to the number "150" painted on the shell this shell was recovered from Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, near Charleston. Read about damage from a 200-pounder Parrott projectile at Fort Sumter, SC. from the
September 5, 1863 issue of Scientific American.