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Offline cannonmn

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Very unusual howitzer?
« on: July 31, 2008, 02:42:30 PM »
Check this out:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3VK3

If you click on the thumbnail you get a larger pic, then click again and it gets larger.  Look at the overall pic of the cannon and tell me if this was made with trunnions ABOVE the centerline of bore, or if the cannon is inverted and has more typical lowline trunnions.  If that's the case then the markings on both trunnions are inverted.  To me this looks like a ca. 1840's design, especially the muzzle.  I've only found one founder with initials EB, which is one Ernest Bourg of Valence, France, active ca. 1795.
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Re: Very unusual howitzer?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2008, 03:08:42 PM »
The cannon is located at an NPS managed site so you might be able to get someone there to provide more information.  This web site is for the house and grounds.  There is a closeup of the muzzle in profile that leads one to believe it is an iron barrel but it only shows the first foot or so.
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Re: Very unusual howitzer?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2008, 10:42:12 AM »
It may have been built to fit an underslung carriage.
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