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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 409632, member: 54&quot;]I received this in a wood crate on Friday, undamaged.&nbsp; I had suggested to seller to pack it upside-down so the weight of the heavy barrel wouldn’t be subject to damaging the more fragile carriage, but he ignored that, and it survived anyway.&nbsp; Looking at it closely tells me the bronze barrel was lost-wax-cast, there’s no evidence of lathe turning on it at all.&nbsp; Plus some of the&nbsp; cavetto (groove between rings) are discontinuous, they can’t be lathe-turned anyway.&nbsp; The trunnions are below centerline, a practice which was mostly changed to centerline location by about 1790’s.&nbsp; So now I’m going to have to rethink what this model represents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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