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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 415665, member: 54&quot;]The very thin silver plate is suspicious to me.&nbsp; Captured bronze cannons, if someone thinks to mark that info on the cannon, will have the text engraved right into the bronze surface of the cannon.&nbsp; The silver plate method is often used to attach important text to small arms, but not cannons, at least not that I’ve seen.&nbsp; I’d really like to see what’s under that plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other aspects of the plate I don’t like: </p><p><br /></p><p>“a Spanish Swivel Cannon...”</p><p><br /></p><p>No cannon capture inscription I’ve seen bothers to describe the type and nationality of the item, they just state “Captured by (name) on (date) at (place.).&nbsp; Another odd part of the text is “and the seamen.”&nbsp; I’ve never seen a capture inscription that shares credit like that.&nbsp; Back then ship’s crewmen who weren’t officers were regarded as necessary lowlifes, not fully human, and although they sometimes received a share of the prize money, if there was any, there was usually no official recognition of their efforts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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