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a bronze breechloader with two breechblocks
The tapering body with some marine encrustings, two horizontal cylindrical bars for retaining the barrel on a gun carriage, with rectangular opening in the end of the breech, the top of the breech cast in shallow relief with two crossed anchors in which two A's for the Admiralty of Amsterdam - 102cm. long; one breechblock inscribed A VOC 29 - 24cm. long; the other breechblock inscribed A - 23cm. long (3)
The tapering body with some marine encrustings, two horizontal cylindrical bars for retaining the barrel on a gun carriage, with rectangular opening in the end of the breech, the top of the breech cast in shallow relief with two crossed anchors in which two A's for the Admiralty of Amsterdam - 102cm. long; one breechblock inscribed A VOC 29 - 24cm. long; the other breechblock inscribed A - 23cm. long (3)