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Lot 222
A Noon-Day Gun
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Comprising a brass cannon barrel and brass-mounted adjustable magnifying glass fixed to a circular white marble base, the first of tapering multi-stage form with ring moulding behind the muzzle and punched foliate decoration over the first and second reinforce, plain trunnions and knob-shaped cascabel, and mounted on two tapering faceted beds, the last incised with hour scale in Arabic numerals numbered from '6' to '12' to '6' above the latitude marked '45.45', '450'
32 cm. diam. base
32 cm. diam. base
Footnotes
For a similar example sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lot 180








