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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 9558462, member: 54&quot;]Ok here’s another article covering several artifacts including the cannon of interest, GOSP-418.&nbsp; I marked it up with yellow highlights at the parts I found credible and pertinent.&nbsp; The remainder often includes statements I consider pure fantasy, including all of the verbiage speculating on events prior to say 1800 supposedly involving the cannon(s).&nbsp; This article has some hard data we can check and trace, such as names.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/4fBq00953f" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/4fBq00953f" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/4fBq00953f</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I searched one name in Google books and found an Army “teniente coronel” in a 1910 Argentine book.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4</a></p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/f13Hgt0mq4" rel="nofollow">I</a> still,need to look up Jurado.&nbsp; Well in Spanish it simply means “jury.”&nbsp; So perhaps it was entered in a competition of some kind and objects were marked this way after review by the appointed jury.&nbsp; Or perhaps “Jurado” meant that proof testing, the usual reason for applying metal stamps to firearms, had been completed successfully.&nbsp; This is a legal requirement in most countries before a firearm, even one designed for firing salutes only, could be fired by the owner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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