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Lot 1105
A SPANISH BRONZE CANNON FROM FORTE DE ROCHER, TORTUGA,18th century.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$16,450 inc. premium
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A SPANISH BRONZE CANNON FROM FORTE DE ROCHER, TORTUGA,
18th century.
18th century.
Muzzle with pronounced flare, a crude heart chiseled into the top of the barrel between a pair of cast dolphins above the trunnions, and raised touch hole above the molded cascabel, mounted on a 20th century wood carriage.
Bore dia. 1 1/2 in., barrel lg. 38 in.
Bore dia. 1 1/2 in., barrel lg. 38 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
Recovered from the ruins of Fort de Rocher, Tortuga.
Acquired from The Braddock Mountain Armory, Braddock Heights, MD, April 2002.
Literature
Cannon is illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), pp. 262-263.




