A rare and impressive german mortar in an estimated 1:5 scale. An antique extremely fine museum exhbition quality, well preserved, probably made by the end of XIX, early XX century. The heavy mortar is in bronze, 15cm lenght and weights 3,138 Kgs with a 40mm bore muzzle. It has a detailed and fully functional mechanism with ropes and brass-made gear wheels. The model is complete with a full set of finely crafted tools: gunner's stiletto, a butcher knife, broom, maul, ladle, linstocks, rammer. A nicely sculpted lion head fits the muzzle cover. A couple of handchiseled lion heads and nice dolphins embellish the mortar trunnions and the barrel. Size is 25x15x16cm, total weight 4,500 Kgs
