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Offline DaveSB

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looks fake, opinions?
« on: July 25, 2011, 04:19:12 PM »
I got a tip from one of the guys at work to check out this cannon the next town over in a VFW parking lot. It looks like a piece of water pipe on wagon wheels to me, but I could be completely wrong.
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 04:27:41 PM »
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 04:48:50 PM »
tiny trunions , square bore , also it looks like it has two touch holes 90* apart .
 
I have no clue  :o  I dont think it is your average yard ornamenit ,
 
 
After a second look.......at it ......yes I think it is a bomb ...homemade too , the castable is not a good thing .
 

 
 
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 06:15:45 PM »
Yes, ornamental cannon made from found items.
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 06:58:44 PM »
Show us some pictures of the  markings.  Ornamental maybe, commemorative maybe.  There is something different about this gun, to many odd detail and features, that shouldn't be on an ornament.
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 09:31:08 PM »
Strange cast in markings:
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V in a keystone.
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 10:12:41 PM »
Quote from: GGaskill on July 25, 2011, 09:31:08 PM
Strange cast in markings:
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V in a keystone.

If you look at the magnified image that Rocklock posted, you see that it is either
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over that Keystone with the V in it.

There is a company, Marmon/Keystone that makes pipe.  The company is a bit over 100 years old.  I wonder if it started as Keystone Pipe and that might be a section of their iron pipe with the part number cast into it?


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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2011, 03:00:53 AM »
it's
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Someone definitely took some time building it. Very strange. I do think you're also correct that it was made to fire, RocklockI, I am going to guess as a noise maker.
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2011, 08:10:26 AM »
Square(ish) bore, and the overall look makes me think of drill pipe. The off set touch holes make me think it was intended as a display or maybe a version of a carbide cannon used for company promotional events.  Just pure speculation here, based on what has been presented.
 
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Re: looks fake, opinions?
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2011, 05:30:18 AM »
The wheels and axle are from a WWI machinegun cart, someone put a lot of effort into the carraige, it was probably made up at least 50 years ago probably for the Civil War centenial. I don't think a shooter.
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