Cannon Id help

ChrisPer · 14th April 2016, 08:44 AM

The form of the reinforce around the trunnions precludes sighting. It is clearly an industrial age product, perhaps designed by patternmakers in a foundry but not by gunmakers, and the shapes suggest mid-later nineteenth century.

I feel that a line-throwing gun is a very good suggestion. There may be catalogue or other documentary evidence of its original purpose.

I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee

CSinTX · 15th April 2016, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisPer

I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee

Try posting it here. http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/blackpo...ast-artillery/

Most active cannon forum I have found.

broadaxe · 17th April 2016, 09:07 PM

Either a line-throwing or a signal (signal means for most fireworks) cannon, the trunnion arrangement is late, post-industrial revolution era, I guess late 19th century or early 20th.

14th April 2016, 08:44 AM	#1
ChrisPer Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 35	The form of the reinforce around the trunnions precludes sighting. It is clearly an industrial age product, perhaps designed by patternmakers in a foundry but not by gunmakers, and the shapes suggest mid-later nineteenth century. I feel that a line-throwing gun is a very good suggestion. There may be catalogue or other documentary evidence of its original purpose. I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee

17th April 2016, 09:07 PM	#3
broadaxe Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 334	Either a line-throwing or a signal (signal means for most fireworks) cannon, the trunnion arrangement is late, post-industrial revolution era, I guess late 19th century or early 20th.