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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 321344, member: 54&quot;][ATTACH=full]106955[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]106956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]106953[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This AM got a call from a friend asking me to vet about a dozen cannons and cannon models for him.&nbsp; He’s a beginning collector.&nbsp; I looked then told him I wouldn’t want but two of them if they were offered to me, even for free.&nbsp; One was marked P.O.R. And when he got the low 5-figure price it was a nice cannon but only worth half that IMO.&nbsp; The other item was, I told him, worth two to three times the asking price IMO, and if he didn’t buy it, I would, despite shipping etc. from Europe.&nbsp; He said he’d buy it but since it wasn’t in his specific collecting category, he’d probably save it to give to me as a finder’s fee when I put him on to something he really wants.&nbsp; That’s cool.&nbsp; He volunteered to let me buy it but I like his idea better, since my focus has shifted a bit away from intensive cannon collecting I did for many years.&nbsp; The supermodel is original and complete, a real “arsenal” model of what must be a proposed design for an early 19th C. Siege gun.&nbsp; I almost never see complete cannon models like this, with absolutely complete carriages in good condition, except in museums.&nbsp; Only the implements (ramrod, sponge, etc) seem to be missing and they aren’t very important.&nbsp; The model is 30” long and is certainly to exact scale, probably 1/6 as is often the case.&nbsp; This is one of the most impressive and complete cannon models I’ve seen anywhere!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]106950[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]106951[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]106952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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