A Fine Bronze East India Company Model Of A 12-Pounder Cannon

DATED 1825

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A Fine Bronze East India Company Model Of A 12-Pounder Cannon
Dated 1825
Of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings and bell-shaped muzzle, knob-shaped cascabel-button and plain trunnions: on original iron-mounted walnut field carriage with cambered spoked wheels, elevating screw, trail with fuse-cutter and pintle hole, and limber en suite, the last incorporating towing-bar and munitions chest, the carriage and limber each stamped with the letters 'WC' and the date '1825' below an United East India Company heart mark, and each painted respectively '12 Pr. Iron Gun' and '12 Pr. Iron Limber' on the axle, and inset with brass oval escutcheon engraved 'Iron 12 Pr. Carr.' and 'Iron 12 Pr. Lim.r' (mounts with minor pitting throughout); together with a framed hand-written note from the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1932
19in. (49.5cm.) barrel (3)

Exhibited

Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum as a loan for many years in the early part of this century

Lot Essay

The letters 'WC' stamped on the carriage and limber possibly stand for Walker & Co. of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, who produced guns from 1822 until circa 1860. The present lot may have been made as a demonstration piece. See A.N. Kennard, Gunfounding & Gunfounders, London, 1986, p. 150

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