Hand gonne and small cannon barrel

Paddy T. · 29th March 2018, 10:40 AM

If you search for "toy cannon" In the London Portable Antiques Scheme for example you will find very similar 18th and 19th century toys from different locations in England. Like this one: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefa...cord/id/848407 , but there are a more small cannons in the database.

But there are also small cannons which haven´t been used as toys, but as funny jokes for banquets to fire salute shots. Sometimes they have added a sundial with a magniffying glass to fire the cannon at a certain hour.

rickystl · 31st March 2018, 04:23 PM

The last photo does indeed look like a cut off piece of Torador barrel made into a small salute type hand gonne.

Rick

29th March 2018, 10:40 AM	#1
Paddy T. Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Germany Posts: 13	If you search for "toy cannon" In the London Portable Antiques Scheme for example you will find very similar 18th and 19th century toys from different locations in England. Like this one: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefa...cord/id/848407 , but there are a more small cannons in the database. But there are also small cannons which haven´t been used as toys, but as funny jokes for banquets to fire salute shots. Sometimes they have added a sundial with a magniffying glass to fire the cannon at a certain hour.

31st March 2018, 04:23 PM	#2
rickystl Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: St. Louis, MO area. Posts: 1,632	The last photo does indeed look like a cut off piece of Torador barrel made into a small salute type hand gonne. Rick