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Lot 1111

A SMALL IRON AND A SMALL BRONZE SIGNAL CANNON.

3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$1,292.50 inc. premium

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A SMALL IRON AND A SMALL BRONZE SIGNAL CANNON.

The iron gun with applied reinforce rings at the barrel and along the barrel suggesting that it began life as an early Spanish "Hand Gonne," on a later probably 19th century carriage; and a bronze cannon with breech modified to function as a breech loading gun, mounted on a later wood carriage.
Overall lg. to 23 in.

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Literature
Guns are illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), pp. 303, 320.

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