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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 242459, member: 54&quot;]I had the auction house send them catalogs of the sales of a few of my cannons from that foundry, with lots of info in the descriptions, so yes they were informed. </p><p><br /></p><p>They were easy to deal with compared to some other museums.&nbsp; I still find it remarkable, but not too surprising that The Museum of the United States Navy still insists that a certain small bronze cannon they have was &quot;brought to America by Cortez in 1495&quot; after I published an article refuting that in about 6 different ways.&nbsp; I asked what was so hard about changing the erroneous sign, and was told by one of their PhD curators that it was too expensive to do so.&nbsp; When I visited the museum about 6 months later, the small cannon was now described by a much larger, more elaborate sign, obviously made at considerable expense.&nbsp; The wording on the new sign had been copied exactly from the old sign.&nbsp; Boy would I like to see that swamp drained![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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