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Description: | Cast copper-alloy toy cannon. Post-medieval, c. 17th-18th century. Length: 40.l9mm; width: 17.4mm; mass: 14.7g. Cast in one piece with a tapering circular sectioned cascabel with a button which is circular in section and sub-oval in plan. The tapering, circular sectioned breech flares out at the end. There is a vent at the cascabel end, between two circumferential mouldings. There is a third, wide, circumferential mouldings towards the centre of the breech, with a trunnion projecting from either side. Similar toy cannons are included in "Toys, Trifles and Trinkets", Egan, 2005, p.79-84.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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