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.

The Boxer Rebellion, 1901
Forts of Shan-Hai-Kuan
Chinese Italian Navy field gun.

A fine exhibition standard 1:20 scale brass and wood model with plastic spoked wheels, based on an elaborated '60s Italian "Pocher/Rivarossi" vintage model gun from Turin. The overall model is 21 cm in lenght. It's finely set in a black matt based showcase.
Scale 1:20 by Ugo Crisponi

The chinese inscription on the barrell says: "Made on the first day of the second moon of the fifth year of Emperor Tong-Tsci" (1867)

The Boxer Rebellion.

The original chinese cannon was captured by Italian marines at the Fort of Shan Hai Kuan, a garrison town in the extreme east of the province of Chih-li in China, during the Boxer Rebellion, about 1901.

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