Cannon with “UNION” cast into it

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  1. springfld.arsenal

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    Trying to determine why this cannon has “UNION” cast into it. Piece is 26” long, bore about 2.5”. It seems to be a salute gun (makes noise only.) Please give me some ideas on the reason “UNION” is on this cannon. It reportedly came from a closed museum in Pittsburgh PA ca. 1990. I’ve been looking into various possibilities on and off for a week but I haven’t gotten anywhere.

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  2. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Question...
    Why don’t you post the photos directly here???
    :p
     
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  3. springfld.arsenal

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  4. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Save or transfer the pics to your PC and post them direct.

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  6. springfld.arsenal

    springfld.arsenal Store: http://www.springfieldarsenal.net/

    If I have to “adopt” one of the many 19th C. Iron foundries that used the name “Union” it’d be this one, which traded under that name 1851-1907. When I get time I’ll contact the town of Catasauqua, in the Lehigh Valley near Allentown, and find their local expert on that foundry. There are several little clues that make this foundry a bit more likely as a source of this cannon, than some of the other “Union” foundries. One is the fact that the cannon was de-accessed from storage at a National Park Service Site in eastern PA, which listed the source on the transfer papers as “gift.”

    http://www.history.catasauqua.org/h...lking-tours/union-foundry-and-machine-company
     
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  7. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

  8. Erstwhile

    Erstwhile Active Member

    I even thought of Union Hardware from Torrington, CT. I've had old shotguns with the Union name on them. I wonder if they ever went as far as selling salute cannons???
     
  9. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    It's got the Union label. :)
     
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