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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 31791, member: 54&quot;]28 tons of cannons-this is the 2nd session selling the world-renowned Springfield Arsenal artillery collection, at James D. Julia auctions, Fairfield, Maine, March 2015.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a preliminary list:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Museum-grade large brass gun model, French, named &quot;Counsel&quot;</li> <li>&quot;Weber brass breech-loading patent model cannon, ~7&quot; long</li> <li>1.5 inch experimental&nbsp; Whitworth breech loading rifle cannon w/ copy exp. carriage</li> <li>10ga salute iron cannon w/ carriage, needs repair</li> <li>15&quot; Bronze stone Mortar Dutch, Verbruggen mkd.</li> <li>1786 French swivel gun tube wrought iron vent</li> <li>1872 Bronze Inventor&#039;s model, N. Thompson Presentation Cannon, on handsome later carriage</li> <li>1893 Krupp breechloader 65mm (#9)</li> <li>18th century outstanding English swivel civilian bronze cannon, ex Bivens with stand</li> <li>2 1/2 ga Strong Firearms Co. ship’s salute cannon on original naval carriage, New-Condition, and tools and two original rare brass cartridge cases</li> <li>2.5 inch Sims-Dudley Dynamite gun projectile, Span-Am,&nbsp; only one known</li> <li>3 Lantakas, Blunderbuss bore plus breechloader and big early one</li> <li>4.5 George III, 1819 bronze Coehorn mortar on bed</li> <li>8 cannon Locks (6 flint) (one percussion), ex-Bill Cobb</li> <li>8 ga Strong salute gun on naval carriage</li> <li>8&quot; Columbiad sea coast howitzer, 5 tons of American history</li> <li>American 3&quot; Parrott rifle SN 9, iron carriage</li> <li>Ames model 1841 bronze six-pounder w/ original (mostly)carriage</li> <li>Ames U.S. 1865 American Coehorn mortar, SN 208, no inspector mk</li> <li>Austrian 70mm bronze breechloading mountain gun 1893 on orig steel carriage</li> <li>Belgium Sea Coast gun 3 tons, 32 pounder</li> <li>Brass model 24-pounder sea coast gun by Hoffman, Smithsonian model maker, on carriage</li> <li>British 1831 Howitzer tube 4.5&quot; (carriage)</li> <li>Bronze eprouvette w/rare, original weighted copper shot, Spanish, Seville, 1828</li> <li>Bronze French rare swivel howitzer w/iron tiller</li> <li>Bronze swivel 1lb gunnade cut for flintlock</li> <li>Brown 3-GA. Ship’s salute cannon, ex-</li> <li>C. F. Brown working model of &quot;Running&quot; Iron cannon</li> <li>Carronade 24 lb (1800&#039;s) iron English</li> <li>Costen steel lifesaving gun, SN 2062</li> <li>Custom made iron salute cannon on carriage, highest quality, circa 1890</li> <li>Dahlgren 12 lb naval cannon on original carriage&nbsp; (rare light model) 1858, Ft Fisher use, many-ship provenance</li> <li>Dahlgren brass model on iron carriage</li> <li>Dutch 1764 swivel gun bronze, VOC</li> <li>Early Bailey &amp; Pegg vintage 1840 merchants cannon, as fine as they are found, extensive markings</li> <li>English 1840&#039;s salute cannon w/carriage &quot;Gill London&quot;</li> <li>English 3lb bronze LVIII mountain gun</li> <li>English 3lb tube bronze, made in England for Haiti</li> <li>English brass howitzer model w/ later carriage</li> <li>Experimental breech loading cannon model, falling block breech mech</li> <li>Experimental Potter Needle- fire cannon tube without breechblock</li> <li>Fancy swivel yacht gun English (maker-Thomas Pyke, Bridgewater, a clock maker)</li> <li>French 18th century mortar model</li> <li>French 3/4 lb swivel Model of 1756</li> <li>French bronze 15cm 1840’s mortar made at Douai, with carriage</li> <li>French Field gun 8lb, w/ metal stand, maker Le Courant of Rennes</li> <li>French model 1 pdr. bronze model of 1756, cut tiller, unique survivor</li> <li>French mountain howitzer Model-1828, dated 1843</li> <li>French tube 1 pounder model 1786 (well-marked) by Le Creusot</li> <li>German mortar model dated 1795</li> <li>Group of 5 commercial &amp; custom American circa 1890 salute cannons, one dated pres 1898</li> <li>Hotchkiss 2lb mountain rifle, SN 60, original carriage, repro cartridge cases and projectiles</li> <li>Hubbell inventors model cannon</li> <li>Inventor&#039;s model, unique shape on burl stand</li> <li>Irish double brass 1848 model carriage chain-shot gun, ex-Bivens</li> <li>Iron &amp; steel, only 6 pdr. Daniel Treadwell field gun in world</li> <li>Iron and brass breech loader, inventor&#039;s model, by Mann?</li> <li>Iron Armstrong type&nbsp; swivel gun</li> <li>Iron Line throwing cannon by Cordes of Bremerhaven, Germany, early</li> <li>Iron military training Mortar</li> <li>Iron salute w/iron carriage</li> <li>Iron small merchant gun, PROVED and animal head cast trademark</li> <li>Iron swivel gun blunderbuss barrel on original post-head mounting</li> <li>J. &amp; W. Tolley rifled steel tube, pentagonal bore</li> <li>John Dahlgren&#039;s original 9&quot; shell gun model tube (only one)</li> <li>Korean bronze B/L captured by U.S.N at River Forts, 1871</li> <li>Large Iron Swivel gun English</li> <li>Large model of 20&quot; Rodman cannon w/carriage</li> <li>Large scale, exquisite French Napoleonic limber model ca.</li> <li>Lg Iron /siege Mortar 8&quot; Alger SN #19 on excellent repro carriage</li> <li>Lg Spanish bronze mortar, 1784, complete on bronze bed, from Morro Castle, Havana</li> <li>Manby lifesaving mortar tube</li> <li>Model 1786 French 1lb bronze tube by Le Courant in Rennes, Fr., very well-marked.</li> <li>Model mortar of the dictator ca, 1864, believed cast at Ft. Pitt, only one known</li> <li>Model of Parrott cannon pivot carriage</li> <li>Original bronze yacht cannon with percussion lock &amp; carriage made by Enoch Hidden, NYC, circa 1860</li> <li>Outstanding pair of Peter Seest small 1755-dated bronze swivel guns</li> <li>Pair late 19th cent cast iron toy seacoast guns on carriages, slight variants in details</li> <li>Pair naval 1812 (U.S.N.??) swivel guns</li> <li>Pair of Iron 1840&#039;s Afghan 2 lb rifled, interesting COA&#039;s</li> <li>Pair of lighthouse fog cannon iron, circa 1820</li> <li>Pair of Rifled bronze Egyptian howitzer tubes on carriages with one Beaulieu-type shell</li> <li>Pair, large model English carronades</li> <li>Pr 1761 small Peter Seest model cannon tubes w/carriages</li> <li>Pr heavy German Eprouvette &quot;powder testing mortars&quot; white metal plated, 7” bores</li> <li>Pr Moffatt 12lb and 3.4&quot; rifle experimental steel&nbsp; breech loaders</li> <li>Pr Scottish bronze cadet guns, 6 pdr, by Featherston and Stoby, Elder</li> <li>Presentation brass mortar model French</li> <li>Rare, excellent ca. 1790 &quot;SNY&quot; Bronze tube 6 lb attributed to James Byers</li> <li>Russian howitzer barrel model, circa 1750</li> <li>Russian Howitzer bronze model,</li> <li>Small brass eprouvette, powder tester</li> <li>Small English swivel gun Iron</li> <li>Spectacular, museum-display 1830&#039;s English brass seacoast pivot model on large carriage</li> <li>Strange 5&quot; bore line thrower</li> <li>Turkish mortar mkd w/Sultan&#039;s Tughra 1870</li> <li>U.S. 24 lb Iron Flank Howitzer spiked</li> <li>U.S. Navy breech loading rifled howitzer, 1870&#039;s carriage</li> <li>Verbruggen bronze swivel gun (ex Julias)</li> <li>Working large cast iron toy gas cannon, new condition</li> <li>WWI German Big Bertha shell casing 42 cm 1915, huge</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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