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.
American Civil War, 1857

Light 12-pounder field cannon «Napoleon» with limber.

Scale 1:15 by Ugo Crisponi

An extremely fine exhibition scale model in display case.

An extremely fine exhibition standard 1:15 scale brass and wood model with plastic spoked wheels, based on a extensively modified '60s Italian "Pocher" vintage model gun and and an entirely scratchbuilt limber with canister shots, common shells, and spherical case shots. Water & grease buckets, sponge & rammer accessories keep the overall harmony of the original Pocher. This model is a unicum of its kind. The overall model is 50 cm in lenght. It's finely set in an highend showcase with a glossy black base made in Germany.

The «Napoleon»

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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