Who knows anything about this naval cannon?

[Grumpa]

Lawn, or porch decoration?

 

[TFoley]

It may well be "olde" as in something from 1900 and used as a signal gun to start yacht races. It is a neat piece anyway

I could go with that. Americans made a lot of cannons for their civil war and they didn't seem to worry so much about bands at the ends of the reinforcements, faddy bits at the muzzle and decorative cascabels, "What have dolphins got do do with a cannon y'all?" :youcrazy:

Meaning, when someone wanted one casting up for the yacht club and wanted pirate rather than Stonewall Jackson they had nothing to copy :thumbsup:

Unlike m'learnéd friend, Robin, here, I'm not a member of anything to do with cannon. However, it strikes me as rather odd that the wheels appear to be fitted the wrong way around...surely, if they are meant to be of differing diameters then the larger should be at the front? Notwithstanding my lack of experience with cannon, I DO, on the other hand, have decades of experience with cast iron castings used in railway practice - full-size and down to Gauge 1, and for a cannon, this has to be about the roughest example of cast iron casting I've ever clapped eyes on. Even the simplest genuinely-intended-for-live-use cannon are not left finished as poorly as this one is. It really is reminiscent of a lower-quality cast-iron garden ornament than the real deal.

I'd leave it well alone. Without having it ultra-sonically and fluoroscopically examined for inclusions, cracks, fissures and/or crysallisation, attempting to fire more than fireworks out of it is one gamble too far.

I can advise all here from practical experience that cast-iron fragments follow low-order detonations as sure as day follows night.

'Stand back and watch this!' Might be the last words you say.

tac

 

[buzz]

I say decoration at best

 

[Zonie]

It looks like a lawn ornament to me.

It's a neat lawn ornament to be sure but the quality of the cast surfaces coupled with the undrilled vent hole makes me think it is little more.

If it were mine, I would reverse the wheels putting the larger ones toward the muzzle.

That would give the muzzle and carrage a natural firing position, slightly muzzle up without the rear of the barrel being lowered to the extreme it currently has.

 

[robinghewitt]

"Lawn, or porch decoration?"
"the roughest example of cast iron casting I've ever clapped eyes on"
"I say decoration at best"
"It looks like a lawn ornament to me"

Well thanks a bunch chaps. Where were you when Frank put me on the spot?

I think maybe you just like watching me squirm :hmm:

Lord love you :blah:

Gits :rotf:

 

[Joshua Cattermole]

well, I could always use it to deter robbers, eh? :grin:

 

[robinghewitt]

well, I could always use it to deter robbers, eh? :grin:

How much more of this junk have you got?

Over on the MLAGB web site in Sales and Wants someone has posted a really nice 12g double by W Chance and Sons. The engraving is to die for, I sort of offered £450 but I will go higher given half a chance, feel free to compete. Stop buying rubbish, get something nice, a bit of eye candy we can all drool over.

 

[TFoley]

well, I could always use it to deter robbers, eh? :grin:

How much more of this junk have you got?

Over on the MLAGB web site in Sales and Wants someone has posted a really nice 12g double by W Chance and Sons. The engraving is to die for, I sort of offered £450 but I will go higher given half a chance, feel free to compete. Stop buying rubbish, get something nice, a bit of eye candy we can all drool over.

IMO it would make a dandy boat anchor - be useful, too.

tac

 

[robinghewitt]

IMO it would make a dandy boat anchor - be useful, too.

If you are referring to the William Chance, I presume this means you are planning to make an offer :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[TFoley]

IMO it would make a dandy boat anchor - be useful, too.

If you are referring to the William Chance, I presume this means you are planning to make an offer :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

No Sir, I don't need a gun that shoot lots of projectiles to hit the things that I shoot at.

tac

 

[Joshua Cattermole]

as I stated in my first post on this forum: I'm no expert, which is true. I specialise in more modernish militaria (ww1, ww2 etc) but that's beside the point. I just wanted to know exactly what I had laying in my bedroom. anyway, I appreciate you having a look at this stuff. and by the way Robin, I'm saving up for a lovely flintlock and will try to get all of the accessories for it.
T4M :hatsoff:

 

[robinghewitt]

Steady on TAC I was not saying you couldn't shoot. I was humorously suggesting that comparing the fine piece up for sale to a mud anchor might be an attempt to deter bidders and reduce the price :surrender:

 

[TFoley]

Steady on TAC I was not saying you couldn't shoot. I was humorously suggesting that comparing the fine piece up for sale to a mud anchor might be an attempt to deter bidders and reduce the price :surrender:

Hmm. Guess I left off the emoticon thing. :wink:

Don't do shotguns, me. Got absolutely no use for one of any kind, so you can bid, safe in the knowledge that I'm not trying anything underhand to futz up your bid.

tac [note use of lower-case letters here]