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Offline flagman1776

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Other Members bidding??
« on: October 02, 2011, 04:38:07 AM »
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Re: Other Members bidding??
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2011, 06:08:20 AM »
Not that one.  Are you?  Do you think it is real? 

I am bidding on "Heavy Cast Iron Breech Loading Yacht signal cannon", which it is not.
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Re: Other Members bidding??
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2011, 06:37:41 AM »
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Re: Other Members bidding??
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2011, 07:11:27 AM »
flagman1776,

The mortar you're looking at was (and still is) made in kit form by an Italian company named Mantua Models. The barrel is made of machined brass, the hardware is brass, and the wood is (at least it was) mahogany. These are fine quality model kits, but in no way, shape, or form, should it ever be fired. The barrels are not machined from solid brass stock, but are produced in sections that have to be epoxied together.

http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/mantua_siege_mortar.html

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