One that I let get away...

[cannonmn]

...on purpose.
The email: 
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
Can I interest you in this iron cannon?, It's 18th century and French, cast with bands of stylised lotus, the barrel inscribed Gavre au Ghapet, Master-General of Ordnance's cypher and it's 101cm long overall, looks like it has a later carriage. It's in beautiful condition and i can provide more pictures if you are interested. I'd be looking in the region of £5000 for it. I have included a picture.
 
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The photo:
 

 

 

[Cannoneer]

You should pounce on this offer like a starving lion; why I wouldn't be surprised if just the capsquares and painting on the carriage alone are worth 5000 pounds.

[KABAR2]

Hey John, you should contact them and tell them to offer it to the Civil War Guru.....
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Next you'll be getting an email from a lawyer from China that he searched you out because a distant dead relitive with the same last name left an estate worth 30 million dollars........
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On another forum there is a collecter overseas who has a put together U.S. musket with tacks all over it and brass work on the front end looks like it came out of Africa several have told him so but he inssists that it must be American Indian........ Just because they want it to be one thing when its something else don't make it so.......