toy cannon

[davesx]

Hi everyone
My first post for a very long time, a toy cannon, 19th c I think.
I got the dime from a self serve supermarket checkout.
Dave.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Welcome back, your lucky to have land this time of year!

Hard to date some of these & it could be very late 18th C as well. Which ever date, it's a good find in my books & often a favourite with the general public.(when I do displays)

 

[treblehunter]

Nice find.

 

[davesx]

Thanks, I don't get out as much as I would like, I only have one farm, I asked for permission at another
farm and got refused because I might disturb the partridges.

 

[vpnavy]

Great find! Thanks for sharing...

 

[danimal03]

super find. I have always wanted to find one but have not been lucky enough. I ended up buying one from a friend who found one at an early plantation site in the South. Ironically the archies had somehow thrown in out of their shovel into a dirt pile. my friend detected the dirt pile and scored several relics before the dozers took it away. I paid a decent amount for it at it is really cool and comes from a historic place. I think yours is early 19th century. Congrats!

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Good find, still need one here!

 

[HenryWaltonJonesJr]

Cool find! It's obvious the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels are real!

Take your time on any land you can access, you have a shot at some ancient metal finds there that make us Septics jealous! Sorry about the dime, talk about getting short changed!

 

[Ninjafossils]

Awesome find. If I'm correct, I'm pretty sure that toys like these actually could fire small projectiles and injured, even killed children. Anyone else know if this is accurate?

 

[danimal03]

they can fire and that is what they were made for. but I have not heard of a documented instance where it killed someone. though this is not my area of expertise so I suppose anything is possible.

 

[dirtlooter]

yes, they weren't necessarily considered toys in their day, at least not in the sense that we call toys now and were very functional. some used as training devices, and some as already suggested, shot very small projectiles and were still dangerous. back in the day, a lot of things that we would not dream of letting our kids doing was almost common place then. Even when I was a kid, back in the sixties, we had access to black powder, carbide for lanterns, everyone had a 22 and a shotgun besides the normal BB and Pellet guns. We (myself and others my age) blew up tons of stuff, especially when burning the trash. so it all depends on how old the little cannon really is. besides all of that , it is just cool...period!

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

That little cannon is almost exactly like the one I found last year in a site that was late 1700 to early 1800. You got a beauty for sure, we don't find many of them on this side of the pond.
Congrats,
ZDD

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks, I don't get out as much as I would like, I only have one farm, I asked for permission at another
farm and got refused because I might disturb the partridges.

We make it clear to all our farmers, that if they have any constraints, we will met them, whatever they are. Shooting is big money & we always avoid the areas they want during the season. If the shooters are just pest control, we just keep a fair distance. So it shouldn't stop you detecting, if you put their minds at ease. With all the land we do, we have yet to upset 1 shooter.