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Offline cannonmn

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Dolphins for Dan
« on: September 25, 2009, 05:07:09 AM »
These dolphins are on a Spanish cannon now at US Naval Academy, Annapolis MD USA.  Does anyone have a name for these hybrid beasties?

Here's the entry regarding this interesting piece, from the 1925 Catalogue.

"War, Mexican, Gun, Spanish, 8-pdr. Bronze, length, 7'8", bore 4 1/4". Captured by U.S. Navy from Mexicans in California in 1847. "Por Pablo en Torys Y Huerta ANODE 1769. Spanish coat of arms Sefundoieron En Lima Siendo Virrey Governador Y Capitan Gral El Ex mas D Manvel De Amat Y Junient Reynando El SD Carlo Tercero."



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Re: Dolphins for Dan
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 05:15:48 AM »
whats front and whats back on them ??   ;D
very odd dolphines

thanks john they will be saved as usual
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Dan Pettersson
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interested in early bronze guns

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Re: Dolphins for Dan
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 05:54:32 AM »
they look like the kind of figures in Mayan gliphs .  were they cast in mexico ?

very simalar ..... :o
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Re: Dolphins for Dan
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 06:25:58 AM »
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were they cast in mexico ?


Cast in Lima, Peru, in 1769
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Re: Dolphins for Dan
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2009, 06:39:20 AM »
cast in peru  :o,thats where the images come from .......straight back to the olmec culture.

i got my brother on it ....he is a world class mayan resercher .....should know something soonish .....
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Re: Dolphins for Dan
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2009, 03:02:42 PM »
my brother says ...no ...no mayan influence  ......wrong agian ...
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