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CIRCA 1800
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A Model Cannon
Circa 1800
With multi-stage tapering brass barrel with raised mouldings and bell-shaped muzzle, and slotted for a front- and back-sight (both missing), stylised dolphin lifting handles, knob-shaped cascabel-button, and plain trunnions, the muzzle and cascabel-button each cast and chased in low relief with a band of acanthus foliage, the first reinforce engraved with a crest and initials: on later wooden stand
12.5/8in. (32.1cm.) barrel
Circa 1800
With multi-stage tapering brass barrel with raised mouldings and bell-shaped muzzle, and slotted for a front- and back-sight (both missing), stylised dolphin lifting handles, knob-shaped cascabel-button, and plain trunnions, the muzzle and cascabel-button each cast and chased in low relief with a band of acanthus foliage, the first reinforce engraved with a crest and initials: on later wooden stand
12.5/8in. (32.1cm.) barrel