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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 291241, member: 54&quot;]I like Skinner.&nbsp; Our company bought dozens of cannons there in a few different auctions.&nbsp; Some were quite unusual and the prices were right.&nbsp; My favorites may be a pair of French Naval guns, cast iron, which had many Layers of old paint.&nbsp; Told my impaired helper to strip the ugly old paint from a mortar we also got at that time.&nbsp; He of course got confused and went after the two Frenchies with a huge power wire brush.&nbsp; I went back to check on the mortar which was still in storage, but the air in the building was filled with dust.&nbsp; I saw he’d done what I didn’t want done and started composing my scolding, but forgot that as soon as I saw large broad-arrow marks and “English”weight markings on both guns, only exposed by his huge wire brush.&nbsp; So those guns had been captured by the Brits, inspected, weighed, and proof-fired, then ready to punish Nappy I guess.&nbsp; I wrote an article about that, think I put it here or linked it anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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