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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9599360, member: 20148&quot;]I too think it is probably an inspectors stamp. Perhaps the barrel was re proofed at some point, hence the second stamp. I think I have a French socket bayonet with clover stamp on it, dating to between 1803-1822. Great ones for inspectors stamps the French!</p><p>Another possibility, though I do not know if this was done this late, was to mark the cannon and cannon balls with a mark, so that you knew you had the right calibre shot if they happened to be mixed up, as was usually the case in earlier times. Sometimes a simple wooden ring was used to check the size of the shot, but in earlier times they were certainly marked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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