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This website is a showcase of a private collection of highend quality bronze, brass and wooden cannons, mortars and reproduction of ancient models in different scales and from different ages. Feel free to contact us if interested in purchasing any of them.
American Civil War, 1857
Light 12-pounder field cannon limber and ammunition caisson, M1857.
Scale 1:5
A scratchbuilt king size ammunition caisson with its limber for the Light 12-pounder 1857 cannon.
Made in 1:5 scale model, resembling the limber used by North and South during The Civil War. The wheels set, as well as the cannon, are from the Jukar/Ardesa/Tradition model. The caisson is made in wood, iron with a copper cover and cow leather accessories.
Inside the caisson there is a wood box tray with scaled down belongings of the gunners, as well as the set of 12-pdr spherical rounds.
The «Napoleon III»
This cannon was named after Napoleon III of France who helped develop this 12-pounder gun-howitzer bronze smoothbore muzzleloading artillery piece. The "Napoleon" or M1857 was adopted by the United States Army in 1857 and extensively employed in the American Civil War. The gun was the American-manufactured version of the French 'canon obusier de 12' which combined the functions of both field gun and howitzer.
A total of 1,157 were produced for the U.S. Army, all but a few in the period 1861–1863. The Confederate States of America utilized captured U.S. 12-pounder Napoleons and also manufactured about 500 during the war.
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