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    Sale 7468

    Antique Arms and Armour Including Property sold by The Art Institute of Chicago, From The George F. Harding Collection of Arms and Armour, and The Property of Various Owners

    London

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    20 September 2007

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    • A FRENCH MODEL CANNON ON A TRU
    Lot 148

    A FRENCH MODEL CANNON ON A TRUCK CARRIAGE

    19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 1,188

    Estimate

    GBP 600 - GBP 900

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    A FRENCH MODEL CANNON ON A TRUCK CARRIAGE
    19th Century
    With heavy brass barrel cast in relief, with moulded muzzle and a series of astragals and fillets augmented by raised bands of leaves at either end of the chase, the latter section also decorated with a profile head medallion, the first reinforce cast with a vacant shield and coronet over the spurious date '1563', flower-shaped cascable button, trunnions, and plain handles.
    25in (63.5cm) barrel

    Provenance

    Theodore Offerman, 1926

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