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"Creating Fine
Sawdust
Since The Last Millennium" Your source for quality handcrafted Civil War living history products. A complete line of wooden ammunition boxes and artillery chests, hardtack boxes, cartridge packs, fuze packages, and camp stools. We also custom make Officers encampment chests, field desks, and medical panniers as well as soldiers personal boxes for re-enactors and living historians. Many of our items are in museums all across the country. ... Do you have a wooden item that you would like to have duplicated? Contact us and we will give you a price. Our phone service is sometimes an issue. If we are slow to reach you by phone typically this is why. Shipping: We live on an island that only gets ferry service two weekdays, Wednesday and Thursday (one way), it is more difficult to ship larger items on other days. Due to this fact and because we can only ship via USPS there may be some delays. Thank you for your patience. |
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| About Our Products
During the "recent unpleasantness", also known as the American Civil War, the warring parties had to supply their soldiers in the field with all the material needed for them to fight for their respective causes. Ammunition for small arms and artillery had to be shipped from the various arsenals to the units that needed it. Most of this was transported in wooden boxes that held from 600 to 2000 rounds of small arms (pistols & rifles) to fewer than a dozen charges and projectiles for cannon. These chests quickly became ubiquitous in the encampments of both Billy Yank and Johnny Reb since they had other uses after the contents had been distributed. Soldiers could sit on them, use them for their own camp chests and finally for kindling for their camp fires. As a result of the last use, not too many of these remain today outside of museums, those originals that are offered for sale today are usually in rough shape, sometimes the lid is missing or it doesn't match the box and is usually covered in what is euphemistically referred to as "patina" or 140 years worth of dirt and age. |
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What
we try to do at Charlies Boatworks is to provide fairly
accurate, made in the USA, copies of actual wooden items
that are reasonably priced. Most of our items are ¾"
white pine, nailed together with cut nails. All edges
are either block planed or sanded. All surfaces lightly
sanded, no knots that would compromise the structural
integrity are left in the pieces. A great deal of
research has gone into the design. The colors we use are
from the descriptions used in the ordnance manuals from
the 1850's and 60's. If, however, a customer has a
different color in mind then we will accommodate their
requests. Either way, we hope you enjoy this website and
don't hesitate to contact us with questions, suggestions
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If you are considering placing an order larger than 5 pieces please contact us via email BEFORE payment. Combining items will save on shipment.
There is a 4% *restocking*
fee for cancelled orders.
We accept the following
methods of payment via the shopping cart or through telephone order.
If you do not wish to use Paypal
please
email us so we can
make other arrangements.
*We do NOT ship
internationally. We ship only to the 48 contiguous
United States*
All items built in Frenchboro, Maine by
Charlies Boatworks. 2013 Charlies Boatworks |
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