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Bronze blunderbuss-style swivel cannon, 1700s.

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Bronze blunderbuss-style swivel cannon, 1700s.
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Bronze blunderbuss-style swivel cannon, 1700s. Approx. 75 lb, 41" long, 3-1/4" bore at muzzle. From a Spanish colonial foundry and found off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1900s as from an unidentified Spanish wreck site, used as a rail guns on a galleon or smaller craft, its design based on early Portuguese guns of the 1600s and manufactured until the 1900s, a noticeable feature being the hollow-socket cascabel for holding a wooden aiming tiller, also with ring-turned barrel decorations, simple decoration at breech area, trunnions to mount on swivel mount or deck carriage, the metal overall in good condition but with heavily patinated surface, only partially cleaned with considerable concretion remaining, small losses to cascabel area (partially eroded away). With photo-certificate. Recovered from: Unidentified 1700s wreck off the Yucatan Peninsula.