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<p>[QUOTE="kbbpll, post: 9668214, member: 84574"]Yes, often misinterpreted or misremembered. I have a mandolin from my great-grandmother and for a long time believed it was post-Civil War, remembering that it belonged to my grandmother's grandfather. I researched it a few years ago and determined that it actually dates later in the mandolin craze, circa 1910, so it really belonged to my mother's grandfather instead - the great-grandmother's husband. It's unlabeled and everyone was making them with the same parts and styles. Impossible to nail it down, only get close. </p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like a similar problem with this cannon research as with the mandolin. There was a craze and everybody was making lots of them. I'm seeing matching cannons saying "Barclay Manoil", like this one <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/155519611244" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/155519611244" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/155519611244</a>, or have them as Barclay or Manoil. As far as I can tell, they were always separate companies. So which one? Or a different "dimestore soldier" maker. Probably doesn't matter that much. It likely dates from the 1930s or early 40s and it was my uncle who played with it, not my grandfather.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kbbpll, post: 9668214, member: 84574"]Yes, often misinterpreted or misremembered. I have a mandolin from my great-grandmother and for a long time believed it was post-Civil War, remembering that it belonged to my grandmother's grandfather. I researched it a few years ago and determined that it actually dates later in the mandolin craze, circa 1910, so it really belonged to my mother's grandfather instead - the great-grandmother's husband. It's unlabeled and everyone was making them with the same parts and styles. Impossible to nail it down, only get close. Seems like a similar problem with this cannon research as with the mandolin. There was a craze and everybody was making lots of them. I'm seeing matching cannons saying "Barclay Manoil", like this one [URL]https://www.ebay.com/itm/155519611244[/URL], or have them as Barclay or Manoil. As far as I can tell, they were always separate companies. So which one? Or a different "dimestore soldier" maker. Probably doesn't matter that much. It likely dates from the 1930s or early 40s and it was my uncle who played with it, not my grandfather.[/QUOTE]
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