Hey Guys,
bought a cannon at a yard sale...Who made it and what size is it?
I think its a navy deck gun. May be a 6 pounder? 57mm?. It weighs about 600 lbs..
Im looking for the base thats missing and maybe the breach block thingy.
anyone know anyone who can help me..Would look cool towed on a m116a3 trailer behind my hmmwv..
Thanks kevin...
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Hey, the scale measure looks more like 63.5 mm. 57 mm would be 2.244 inches. But I have no idea what gun that should be. From the calibre that sounds like a Navy gun. However, I can not find anything about that calibre in my books...
Sorry. I'm limited.
Wolf
I think it was made in 1898, as the brass plate says. I think its a hoskitch?(sp)..
I paid 1200 for it..It has a lot of brass in it..Would look really nice polished up and painted.
The scrapper and I were duelling over it..I offered the most..So i got it..
Kevin..
ps, the camera date is wrong.(new battery)
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Hotchkiss is French and was a famouse gun maker beside the licence holder for the Willys MB untill 1968, known as Hotchkiss M201 licence Willys MB. Later the company was named Hotchkiss Brand and made very famous motars of 120 mm in Europe (leading brand for this type of artillery).
So if it really a Hotchkiss gun, the calibre makes sence for the 19th century, an ordinary piece of field artillery with a range of about 6 km to the max.
Wolf
I think it was made in 1898, as the brass plate says. I think its a hoskitch?(sp)..
I paid 1200 for it..It has a lot of brass in it..Would look really nice polished up and painted.
The scrapper and I were duelling over it..I offered the most..So i got it..
Kevin..
ps, the camera date is wrong.(new battery)
Variant of the 6-pdr. Hotchkiss cannon. Here's a pic of one restored. Caliber is 57mm, used as a naval deck gun from the latter 1800s to early in 1900s.
Quite a find at a yard sale!
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Hotchkiss is French and was a famouse gun maker beside the licence holder for the Willys MB untill 1968, known as Hotchkiss M201 licence Willys MB.
That explains some willys jeeps I found in a barn had morroccan eblems and french data plates. the man bought a lot of twenty five back in the eighties is down to three. I wonder if you gun had an Otto Loader LOL
WHAT DID I BUY?..WHAT IS IT?..57mm?
