Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 461

A Fine Brass-Mounted Model Of A 6-Pounder Cannon And Limber
Circa 1830-50

Amended
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,800 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A Fine Brass-Mounted Model Of A 6-Pounder Cannon And Limber
Circa 1830-50

With bronze barrel of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings and turned bell-shape muzzle, knob-shaped cascabel linked to the brass elevating screw, and plain trunnions: on original brass-mounted wooden field carriage with cambered spoked wheels, tapering block trail with fuse-cutter on the right side, and fuse-box (lids replaced) on either side at the trunnions, the limber en suite, and incorporating replacement towing bar and two munitons chests (lids replaced), the latter each with two brass carrying handles on brass heart-shaped plates (minor replacements including trunnion-caps and pins) (2)

Footnotes

For a similar East Indian Company model sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour 24 July 2002, lot 222

Saleroom notices

40.7 cm. barrel, 2 cm. bore

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later