Help needed to identify this found today…

[beccapepps1991]

Can anyone help identify this? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

 

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[Mackaydon]

Gun and carriage may have looked something like this:

Miniature Royal Navy Bronze Cannon on Skeleton Carriage | Land and Sea Collection

This design is one of the rarest seen in a small size model of a bronze cannon. It replicates a Royal Navy cannon of the 19th Century with a skeleton iron carriage. High quality antique models of ship’s cannons are scarce, but one with a skeleton carriage is scarcer still. This one likely dates...

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Don in SoCal

 

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[Gene Mean]

Two items of interest:
1. Two wheels on one side--but not two wheels on the other side. Was the carriage two or four wheeled?
2. Wheel to the right appears to have something in the hub. Hopefully, it's not plastic.
Don in SoCal

Looks almost like pvc, but that doesn't make sense. There is a 3rd wheel visible in pic#2

 

[oldmxrat]

Crickets....

 

[Gene Mean]

Looks like it's basically laying in a clearing. Farm field? Battlefield park?

 

[Mine Shaft]

I would say you hit the jackpot. Very cool wheels and all.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Wow ... what cool find !

If your able to retrieve it and it's to heavy to lift by hand ...
I'd find someone with a Mini Excavator or a Skid Steer to load it in/on a Truck or Trailer.
If you do this - use Nylon Lift Straps - NOT Chains !

Good Luck !

 

[Mine Shaft]

I see 4 wheels look close second pic top right.

 

[Mine Shaft]

Also as mentioned would be nice to hear the full story

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I want reveal his location, hopefully he will return and give more info, let's just say it was across the pond.

 

[robertk]

Looks almost like pvc, but that doesn't make sense.

It would if it's a replica. (For example, this place makes plastic replica barrels that look pretty convincing.). (I'm not saying this one from the OP is or isn't. I have no idea.)

 

[cudamark]

Welcome to Tnet.

You need to help people to help you rather than just providing zero information beyond a few pictures. It would be a remarkable find if that's truly the 'in situ' context.

Where was it found... geographically, and whether from a coastal area, inland and near any kind of fortification or other structure, near a navigable river or whatever? And what are the dimensions?

I'm no cannon expert and the numbers will likely mean something to someone who is, but the crowned 'P' as an ordnance mark is generally regarded as a proof mark used by the Woolwich Arsenal in London, beginning in the Georgian era. There doesn't seem to be a Royal cypher or a broad arrow mark which would indicate it to be Crown property (ie not British military) and cannons without that indication mostly saw use on merchant ships for protection.

However, the mark was not protected, and other foundries used it in imitation of the Woolwich mark as a pretence that they offered the same quality. Those with just the crowned P proof mark turn up all over the place (notably in British Colonial countries) but mostly seem to be of British manufacture and may or may not have a maker mark.

Presumably this monogram is a maker mark with the last letter a little unclear, but it looks like it might be 'SHL', which doesn't mean anything to me:

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Somehow I was seeing it up side down and it being JHS

 

[Red-Coat]

Somehow I was seeing it up side down and it being JHS

Looking at it again, I believe you're absolutely correct and it reads 'JHS' or 'IHS.' There appears to be a crest above the monogram with an animal's head facing left head issuant from a crown or coronet.

The letters don't ring any bells apart from 'Iesus Hominum Salvator', which would be an odd inscription for a cannon. As a family or company crest it's a bit odd to see the letters not centralised below the emblem.

 

[Mine Shaft]

I see the same thing maybe a Birds head, Duck or something lol.

 

[Mackaydon]

Yes, the Christograms, IHS and JHS for Jesus Christ, does seem odd, but who knows.
Could there be a Crown between the initials and the head.?
Don in SoCal

 

[cudamark]

Yes, the Christograms, IHS and JHS for Jesus Christ, does seem odd, but who knows.
Could there be a Crown between the initials and the head.?
Don in SoCal

Hogwarts sorting hat?

 

[CRUSADER]

Gun and carriage may have looked something like this:

Miniature Royal Navy Bronze Cannon on Skeleton Carriage | Land and Sea Collection

This design is one of the rarest seen in a small size model of a bronze cannon. It replicates a Royal Navy cannon of the 19th Century with a skeleton iron carriage. High quality antique models of ship’s cannons are scarce, but one with a skeleton carriage is scarcer still. This one likely dates...

landandseacollection.com

Don in SoCal

Funny, I thought Repro as well.