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Hi , I would have more info Abaut This cannon ! It s iron 68 cm lenght with 45 kg weight ! Very heavy ! Any comment in origin and use ? Thanks
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Hi,
i think, this is a Howitzer and of european origin. It is a weapon between a long canon and a mortar. It seems to be an early iron-Howitzer. Roland |
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Hi Roland What period in your opinion ?
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Is the inside of the vent threaded? If so I would second the line throwing gun ID.
Also, the trunions appear to be set along the center line of the bore. Most modern cannon, from about c. Mid-18th C. used as weapons had them set lower, almost tangential to the bore. |
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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 |
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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.
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