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Lot 204*
A French Noon-Day Gun
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,750 inc. premium
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Comprising stout brass cannon barrel with two bands behind the moulded muzzle, moulded breech with knob-shaped cascabel, and plain trunnions, on brass mounts each with trunnion-cap with knurled securing screw, and adjustable brass-mounted circular magnifying glass acting against a D-shaped mount on each side, on a circular white marble base incised 'L'Ingr. Chevalier Opticien Du Roi A Paris' above an hour scale in Roman numerals from 'I' to 'XII', and with brass gnomon
27 cm. diam. base
27 cm. diam. base
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Provenance
Richard B. Trethewey Collection
Cf. similar examples sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms & Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lot 180; and Antique Arms & Armour..., 26 November 2014, lot 259








