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**lake_dweller** · 10-31-2007, 02:28 PM

link doesnt work try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SsBnlgAXkc

**copdoc** · 10-31-2007, 08:17 PM

Wow.......................wow

**Alan Smith** · 11-01-2007, 08:32 AM

Yes, pretty wild stuff. Mr. Dickey obviously had no fear of the ordinance items he collected.

Mr. Dickey passed away some time back (my estimate would 10-15 years ago). As far as I know his passing was from natural causes and not exploding ordinance.

The balance of Mr. Dickey's collection at the time of his death was donated by the family to form the core of the Civil War collection held at a city-owned museum in Atlanta. Even though I am not a Civil War collector, I sure enjoyed looking at Mr. Dickey's collection in the museum when I visited about 6-8 years ago.

**copdoc** · 11-01-2007, 09:34 AM

from natural causes and not exploding ordinance.

God must have loved him a lot. From the films it looked like a fantastic collection. He deserved it. Hammering a steel screwdriver into a fuse, even a Boreman fuse with no percussion element could have surprised him. I guess his friend's drill press was too much.

**Danny L** · 11-01-2007, 10:18 PM

All I can say is "that was a very brave camera man". I doubt any expert explosive ordnance disposal person would endorse this man's hobby. I say, leave it to the experts to make them inert.

**AndrewK** · 12-13-2007, 05:06 AM

Here's a link to Thomas Dickey's relic room (as well as some history about the man) There are some really rare and amazing pieces in there. He's also got a few books out which are highly recommended for Civil War artillery projectile collectors.

http://www.civilwarartillery.com/dickey.htm

The video reminds me of a Civil War field artillery projectile I bought on Ebay once. When it arrived I could see that it was still in pretty close to "ground find" condition and the open fuse hole contained some kind black material packed inside. I ended up blasting it out with a hose, but needless to say I was holding my breath during the less than relaxing work

**Jean-Loup** · 12-13-2007, 01:45 PM

Those tree limbs that are apparently damaged by gunfire, or have shells embeded in them look extremely interesting. Could anybody post a close up?

JL

**pete** · 12-13-2007, 02:23 PM

5/5 The worst thing with this kind of thing is that eventually somebody died off after walking the razors edge doing stuff like this and if luckilly the house didnt go boom, hopefully while nobody is home, the EOD team from the police eventually has to go respond to somthing like this and remove it all.

Add Basement-----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44iKXLIMzrg

**Mike Davis** · 12-13-2007, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Alan Smith View Post

The balance of Mr. Dickey's collection at the time of his death was donated by the family to form the core of the Civil War collection held at a city-owned museum in Atlanta. Even though I am not a Civil War collector, I sure enjoyed looking at Mr. Dickey's collection in the museum when I visited about 6-8 years ago.

This is a link to the Atlanta History Center's collections:

http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/...te.cfm?cid=425

Well worth a visit when in Buckhead.

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