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Can anyone help identify this? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
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I do know it's a cannon but when and where I don't know, I'd be trying to find a way to get it home I could tell you that lolCan anyone help identify this? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
😳Can anyone help identify this? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
This weight was for 2 main reasons.... for the foundry to get paid.. and for SHIP-ing (heh)information (ballast weights) actually.8-0-8 is a designation of weight in hundredweights, quarters and pounds. Each hundredweight weighs 112 pounds; or 896 plus 8 pounds equals 904 pounds.
The hundredweight was part of a system of measures of weight that was in commercial use throughout the British Empire from ancient times (as legally defined in 1340 by King Edward III, the hundredweight was equal to eight stones of 14 pounds each)--- into the 1970s.
Does the piece weigh that much?
The crown and P go together to assure the purchaser that the gun had been proved (tested to a standard).
Don in SoCal
That's what she said...How big is it? Interesting find.
Redcoat... perhaps mark of George 3 ?