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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 392008, member: 54&quot;]Do you know anything about the history of the cannon?</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m pretty sure based on the decoration and marks, it was privately commissioned and owned, meaning non-government, and non-VOC.</p><p><br /></p><p>After you have taken the additional photos we need, bring a magnet near the breech and pass it all around that area.&nbsp; You should find three or four areas, equally spaced around the breech, where there are steel chaplets embedded in the bronze.&nbsp; Sometimes they’re visible to the eye and sometimes they’re fully covered by bronze, but they can’t hide from a magnet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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