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CANNONS & Co.
Museum Quality Models & Miniatures
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.
German bronze 8-inch Mörser, 1596
Bronze Mortar (8 inch).
1:5 scale.
Side view with the full display of the gunner tools in 1:5 scale.
Side view with the full display of the gunner tools in 1:5 scale.
A detailed and fully functional mechanism with ropes and brass-made gear wheels for the barrell elevation.
1596
"von Böllern rammern und anderen Buchsen zu laden und schiessen".
The shape of the weapon, mortar and bed, carved from a mahogany solid wood, is in the XVII century style, similar to
those in the engraving from "Kriegsbuch" of Leonhard Fronsperger, edited in 1596 and probably one of the projects by
the german engineer Conrad Büttner (c. 1575, dok. 1622 in Büdingen).
However, the bronze mortar is a perfect replica of the mortar casted by Giacomo Castronovo in Napoli in 1741. Today this mortar can be seen at the entrance of the Palazzo dell'Arsenale (now Comando della Formazione e Scuola d'Applicazione dell'Esercito) in Torino, Italy.
Rammers & Co.
The model is complete with a full set of finely crafted tools: A brass gunner's stiletto, a butcher knife in wood and steel, broom, maul, black powder ladle, couple of linstocks, portfire stock, a rammer, all in scale.
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