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This page was last updated on February 2, 2005

****** In support of our troops overseas, we are postponing the April 1, 2003 cannon price increase to a later date. ******

NEW: 8" Siege Mortar

CANNON PICTURES/STATISTICS (Please note that dimensions and weights shown below are approximate.)

REVOLUTIONARY HOWITZER, 1700s

NEW

Scale -- Full ; Trunnion Diameter -- 3 1/4" ; Bore -- 3" ; Length -- 25" ; Weight -- 90
Add "DOLPHINS" to this gun for only $200.00 more.

ENGLISH SWIVEL GUN, 1750-1815

NEW

Scale -- Full ; Trunnion Diameter -- 1 1/2" ; Bore -- 1 5/8" ; Length -- 30" ; Weight -- 104
Add "DOLPHINS" to this gun for only $200.00 more.

COEHORN MORTAR, 24-POUNDER

The shot that opened the Civil War was fired from a mortar. The Coehorn Mortar was a very useful piece, for it was developed in the 16th century, and there were still a few in use in British colonial garrisons in the 1920's. This is the 24-pounder model of 1841. It was mounted on a simple bed and served by a crew of four. It fired a standard 24-pounder shell to a maximum range of 1200 yards.

Scale -- Full ; Bore -- 2 1/4 ; Length -- 14 ; Weight -- 80
(Hardware Kit and Plans available)

PARROTT RIFLE

The Parrott Rifle was developed by Robert Parrott, the supervisor of the West Point Foundry from 1836 to 1867. It was easy to use, cheap to make and quick to produce. It was not the best, but "...the best practical thing that could be got at the time ... ."

The Parrott Rifle was a cast iron cannon, and to reduce the tendency for the barrel to burst, a wrought iron band was shrunk on around the breech. Parrott's basic patents were concerned with the method of shrinking on the band.

Scale -- Full (10 Pounder); Bore -- 3 5/8 ; Weight -- 1660
Scale -- 3/4 ; Bore -- 2 1/4 ; Length -- 58 1/2 ; Weight -- 500 ; Trunnion Diameter -- 2 3/4
Scale -- 1/4 ; Bore -- Cast Solid ; Weight -- 32

MOUNTAIN HOWITZER, 12-POUNDER, MODEL 1841

The Howitzer was a light, smooth bore cannon designed to shoot a heavy projectile with a light powder charge, contained in a sub-caliber chamber at the bottom of the bore. Because of its light weight, it was much handier than other cannon of similar caliber.

Scale -- Full ; Bore -- 2 1/4 ; Length -- 37 1/4 ; Weight -- 275 ; Trunnion Diameter -- 2 3/4
Scale -- 1/2 ; Bore -- Cast Solid ; Weight -- 50

6-POUNDER, MODEL 1841

The Ordnance Board of 1841 drew up the design for this gun, which is one of the most common of all the artillery pieces of the Civil War. This gun was made by both the North and the South; and was made in both cast iron and bronze, though bronze was more common.

With its distinctive eye at the cascable, the U.S. Carronade was considered the logical sea cannon. It was easily secured for controlled recoil. The loop also made rapid dock-to-ship transfer of the weapon safer and quicker.

The 3-inch Ordnance Rifle was a big favorite of Southern artillerymen, as well as their Northerncounterparts. They fired mainly the nine pound Hotchkiss and Schenkl projectile. The 3-inch Ordnance Rifle was a forge welded cannon made of wrought iron, a material somewhat like mild steel.

The Napoleon was commissioned by Louis Napoleon of France to replace several cannons of similar size. In 1857 Ames Manufacturing Company produced the first of several variations of this design. Some were made with handles, and muzzels were made both with and without a swell. The cannon shown here is the Union Second Type, the most popular of the variations.

The Spanish Howitzer, in silhouette, is uniform. That is, it is a cylinder and marked only by reinforcing band, trunnion assembly and cascable. The firearm was used on shipboard to set fire to an enemy's sails. Scale -- 1/2 ; Bore -- 2 1/4 ; Length -- 15 ; Weight -- 85 ; Trunnion Diameter -- 1 1/2

SWIVEL GUN (RAIL GUN)