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Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« on: April 10, 2012, 06:12:57 PM »
Have not had time to look at them all yet.  Steven H. Smith posted this info on the Napoleon Series forum which I check now and then.
Photographs of ten artillery tubes in the Borodino Panorama Museum collection (Moscow) - formerly in the Kremlin collection:
  http://valenik.ru/vsesvit/tema/m/museum/b/borodpan.html
 http://u1.ipernity.com/1/14/42/871442.e2c12c71.1024.jpg
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2274.jpg
 
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 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2276.jpg
 
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http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2279.jpg
 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2280.jpg
 
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2281.jpg
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http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2284.jpg
 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2285.jpg
 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2286.jpg
 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2287.jpg
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 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2290.jpg
 http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2291.jpg
 Also:
 http://www.osd.ru/ftproot/users/0000003/al0000285/0000001_big.jpg
 http://www.osd.ru/ftproot/users/0000003/al0000285/0000004_big.jpg
 
@Guns still in the Kremlin:
 http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2169/1980804654_e424045d4a_o.jpg
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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2012, 08:24:01 PM »
Thanks for the post, some good stuff. I'm going to have to do some homework in order to connect a few of those tubes with their place of origin.
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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 10:25:34 PM »
Nationalities of tubes shown include Wurtemberg, Austrian, French, and Italian.
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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 06:16:44 AM »
Ah ha, you took the easy route. What if Mr. Dawson is mistaken?  Now I have to go and research Wurtemburg, to see if it’s a country or a type of lettuce.

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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2012, 08:29:42 AM »
Quote from: Cannoneer on April 13, 2012, 06:16:44 AM
  Now I have to go and research Wurtemburg, to see if it’s a country or a type of lettuce.

Not exactly a country, being part of the German Empire, but close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg

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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2012, 06:26:26 PM »
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Re: Bronze guns from many countries on display in Russia
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2012, 02:40:50 PM »
Right ID on the Wurttemberg cannon.  The chase bears the cypher of Duke Frederick II.  http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/ks.er/1236/s-2286.jpg  That piece is dated 1803, actually 3 years before Wurttemberg became a country, with first soverign King Frederick I (same person as Duke Fred. II.)
 
The French ones are easy, all seem to have the "N" of Napoleon on the breech.  Austrian pieces have place of casting on the basering, Wien (Vienna.)  Italian piece(s) were cast at Pavia, Italy, as marked on basering.
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