Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
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A FINE FRENCH BRONZE SALUTING CANNON BY<br />
VAUTROT MRE ARMURIER AU 4E HUSSARDS, DATED<br />
1824<br />
with tapering barrel formed in four stages, with raised<br />
astragal mouldings, engraved with a band of anthemion<br />
foliage behind the muzzle and fitted with a fore-sight,<br />
inscribed ‘MES PROPORTIONS FONT MA FORCE’, in a<br />
recessed panel and cast with the crowned Royal cypher of<br />
Louis XV, on the chase, cast and chased with a maned lion<br />
mask beneath the date on the first reinforce, inscribed with<br />
the maker’s details on the base ring, the cascabel drawnout<br />
to a globose button and engraved with further<br />
anthemion, a pair of lifting-handles of Gribeauval type and<br />
plain trunnions each impressed with the number ‘16’: on its<br />
original brass-clad wooden field carriage retaining some<br />
green paint throughout, painted with matching number ‘16’,<br />
fitted with elevating screw, and a pair of brass-shod spoked<br />
cambered wheels (one cup-square and one spoke are<br />
missing)<br />
37.2cm; 14.K in barrel<br />
1.8cm;Nin bore.<br />
‡ £3000-5000<br />
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