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bottom that says: Souvenir Cannonball, Made in Virginia, with Von Fange’s last name in the center. Von Fange said that people want to buy things made in Virginia. He sells them ail over the state with different dates and letters:
• CSA, which stands for the Confederate States of America. These appeal to Southerners and Northerners as well, mostly Civil War buffs.
• 1776. These are popular in Jamestown, Va. and Yorktown, Va.
• 1861. Von Fange says “only appeals to the Southerners. The Northerners want 1865.”
• US for the Union. A big seller in Gettysburg, Pa.
• VMI for the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. Von Fange said the school did not want to sell the cannonballs. But a store called “Made in Virginia” near the campus took the product and is currently Von Fange’s number one seller, “The school wasn’t
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