Octomug and baby

[cannonmn]

Last Saturday I acquired the baby octomug shown.  The photos show it next to one I got long ago, which weighs 38 lbs.  Baby weighs maybe 4 lbs.  I find about one antique thundermug every two years.  I'd like more!  Octomug is of course a name invented by me to describe this type, rather than an historically-accurate one.  I only have these two octomugs.  They don't show up as often as the cylindrical kind.

There's a "T" cast into the larger one, which should be a foundry initial.  I haven't yet found out for sure what foundry that was, but I suspect it was one in Germany or Austria.

[KABAR2]

Cannonmn,

It is interesting that the smaller one has a small dimple and a track leading back to the touch hole

if laid flat this could have been for a powder train,  are you sure it's is a thunder mug and not possibly

a form of gonne to be inletted and mounted into a pole?

[cannonmn]

Thanks Allen, I wondered about that keyhole vent pan also but didn't get anywhere.  What you bring up is an interesting possibility, maybe Richard will chime in as he's the Ruler of the ReallyOldStuff around here.  Maybe I'll look in my copy of Essenwein and see if there's anything like it pictured there.

Great drawing, by the way, Mr. da Vinci.  BTW, how come you aren't working as a commercial artist?

[BoomLover]

Sounds about right to me, KABAR2. That is a concept that would even pre-date fuse, making this item even older than you thought, Cannonmn. BoomLover

[KABAR2]

Great drawing, by the way, Mr. da Vinci.  BTW, how come you aren't working as a commercial artist?

Thanks, it's one of many gifts I've been blessed with I love to draw but don't have much time for it,
as for commercial artist....... I have done some artwork / logo for myself and friends there is a military surplus store
in NY that uses a design I came up with,  I guess you could say I prefer to create things with moving parts that
actually do something, and can actually be of some use to someone, maybe when I retire - if I don't
die still in harness, I'll start my 4th or 5th career as an artist.