Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Honourable East India Company: a cast brass swivel cannon, approximately 1.5 in. calibre, barrel length 14 in. from the vent to the swollen muzzle, trunnions with rounded ends, much thickened at the base of the breech, cascabel with extended neck, touch hole set in a raised triangular plane spanning the vent field and struck with a marked of a gun on a field carriage over 'MA' and the numerals '1582', barrel also marked '7' over '011', overall length 51cm (20 in.).

(51cm overall length)

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The mark of a field gun over 'MA' is identical to that observed on a model gun carriage produced at the Company's Bombay Carriage Manufactory in 1822, and sold in these rooms 28/03/2017.