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Re: Monge, Gaspard -- Description de l'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
« Reply #30 on: November 05, 2008, 04:38:03 AM »
I cant find anything there more then some instructions about fencing

Try this URL:  http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/PolishHorseArtillery.htm
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Re: Monge, Gaspard -- Description de l'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2008, 11:15:19 AM »
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The amply endowed gentleman is unknown to me. He is not standing by Kismet. That cannon if I remember correctly when I asked, is at a fort (?) in New Hampshire (?).

What exactly would you like me to, "narrow down a bit"?  You know what the Lion's Paw looks like.  It is being discharged in the single image of it. Other than that????

I can only ID a few of them, since I've only met them once and that was in Massachussetts where I dragged my cannon for them. Kismet wasn't there. 

In the background are probably men from TX, TN, AR, CT, PA, NH, MA, VA, ME, NJ  as far as I can recall. That where they were from for that weekend. Don't ask me which ones. I only met them once and won't see them again. I'm not into reenacting or SCA and playing dress-up. I'm only a guy who owns a couple of full size cannons and the group only has Kismet. 

Kismet is the only bronze on the website and the carriage appears blue in the photographs. It is 2.25" and was cast in Coolville, Ohio.

I forged mine in Arkville, New York. Talk about living rural?  Is Lincoln still President?



Ask Rick Orli; he'll be happy to tell you, exactly where it was cast.
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Re: Monge, Gaspard -- Description de l'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2008, 02:51:09 PM »



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Re: Monge, Gaspard -- Description de l'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2008, 07:55:48 AM »
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What exactly would you like me to, "narrow down a bit"?  You know what the Lion's Paw looks like.  It is being discharged in the single image of it. Other than that????

OK, OK, I apologize, I misread your post, I thought you said it was an image of you, your features obscured by a cloud of smoke, standing by Kismet the bronze gun, not you standing by the "Lionspaw". I'm now wondering if that smoke was caused by the burning of black powder or it was simply steam escaping from the ears of your hot-tempered head. I'm sure you know that my silly suggestion that you might be the rotund Husaria (or whatever the hell he's supposed to be) was just a jest meant to bring about a few he, he, he, he's.

BTW, all seriousness aside, I'm glad to see that you're back to posting again and that you're as feisty as ever.
RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

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