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interested. The entrepreneur is making big bucks on it right down the road.”
Von Fange describes the type of person who buys the cannonballs as “relic hunters. They’re real. They’re out there. And the more authentic it looks, the more they want it.”
At 12, Von Fange
finds cannonball
Von Fange recalls a story that details his fascination with cannonballs:
“When I was 12 years old, I found a 36 pound cannonball in the James River. It was from the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (during the Civil War). The first battle between two steel ships ever. I saw this big clump that looked like a rock. It was made of iron. I picked it up thinking there was more to it and I smashed it against a rock bulkhead. It opened up like an egg and this perfect cannonball fell out of it. Years of deposits had built up on it.”
“I had a bike for delivering papers. I rode all the way to the Norfolk Naval Museum 20 miles away. I probably rode 20 miles everyday with my paper
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