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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 1243591, member: 54&quot;]“The bronze on your cannon does diffently appear to have some age. You can have the bronze tested to help establish a possible time period of manufacture. Bronze over the century’s changed in it’s makeup and sometimes dating the bronze is the best way to find the circa of an object.”</p><p><br /></p><p>interesting; I’ve been researching cannons for decades and this is the first time I’ve heard that, unless you are talking about the percentages of the different elements making up the bronze alloy.&nbsp; If so, those percentages were often regional, depended somewhat on what was available, and on the specific purpose of the casting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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