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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 4294616, member: 54&quot;]Have been working on this.&nbsp; I felt the 8-pointed star-like mark was important.&nbsp; Such a symbol is so common you’d really have to know what country to begin searching.&nbsp; I only had a couple of places to look where I knew that form of cannon was used, both former Spanish colonies or had contained Spanish colonies, namely the Philippines and North America.&nbsp; I started with the Philippines.&nbsp; I found web pages I thought might have bits of information I could eventually connect.&nbsp; Since this cannon had been in a Navy museum and was marked as a war trophy, I looked for 8-point stars, battles in which the Navy or Marine Corps had fought there, and notable enemy officials who might have had their initials on a cannon.&nbsp; Still working on it.&nbsp; A few of the sites that seem to have info I can use:</p><p><br /></p><p>Near the bottom of this I saw insignia that may have been the inspiration for the mark on the cannon:</p><p><a href="http://www.agmohio.com/LRenemyuniforms_Filipino_Insignia.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.agmohio.com/LRenemyuniforms_Filipino_Insignia.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.agmohio.com/LRenemyuniforms_Filipino_Insignia.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1904/october/operations-navy-and-marine-corps-philippine-archepelago-1898" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1904/october/operations-navy-and-marine-corps-philippine-archepelago-1898" rel="nofollow">https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1904/october/operations-navy-and-marine-corps-philippine-archepelago-1898</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Filipino_generals_in_the_Philippine_Revolution_and_the_Philippine–American_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Filipino_generals_in_the_Philippine_Revolution_and_the_Philippine–American_War" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Filipino_generals_in_the_Philippine_Revolution_and_the_Philippine–American_War</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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