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    Arms & Armour

    London

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    15 July 1999

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    • A Model Cannon
    Lot 143

    A Model Cannon

    CIRCA 1800

    Price realised

    GBP 690

    Estimate

    GBP 600 - GBP 800

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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

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