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fernando · 14th January 2012, 08:08 PM

The information provided was a transcription of a paper passed by Luso-German collector and arms historian Rainer Daehnhardt, who intended to divulge it among his Association fellow members and other acquaintances. In fact, during my visit to his premises near Lisbon a couple months ago, i had visual contact with this and other numerous cannons, that he displays in his estate gardens.
I understand that what he means by Oriental Indias is, for one, Indonesia, assuming that when he quotes the copy of these cannons by local 'mobile' smiths who worked under commission he names places like Jawa, Sumatra and Malaca.
I take it that he recognizes the origin of this (his) piece as 'provenly' from such provenance due to his experience with handling several of these things and not exactly because of this possible breech insignias.
Worthy of note is his quoting in this (sort of) publication that he once had the task to classify the Sultan of Brunai's cannons collection. Out of 900 tubes in bronze, from which a half dozen were breech loaders, only thirty were fire weapons ... the rest having been cast for purposes of money currency; they would burst if fired.
The Thunder Mug serving as a stand is, because he has quite a few around, he might find this one useful for these purposes ( i have a few, myself ).
I hope he doesn't mind that i post here some of the stuff he has in the gardens.
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14th January 2012, 08:08 PM	#7
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	The information provided was a transcription of a paper passed by Luso-German collector and arms historian Rainer Daehnhardt, who intended to divulge it among his Association fellow members and other acquaintances. In fact, during my visit to his premises near Lisbon a couple months ago, i had visual contact with this and other numerous cannons, that he displays in his estate gardens. I understand that what he means by Oriental Indias is, for one, Indonesia, assuming that when he quotes the copy of these cannons by local 'mobile' smiths who worked under commission he names places like Jawa, Sumatra and Malaca. I take it that he recognizes the origin of this (his) piece as 'provenly' from such provenance due to his experience with handling several of these things and not exactly because of this possible breech insignias. Worthy of note is his quoting in this (sort of) publication that he once had the task to classify the Sultan of Brunai's cannons collection. Out of 900 tubes in bronze, from which a half dozen were breech loaders, only thirty were fire weapons ... the rest having been cast for purposes of money currency; they would burst if fired. The Thunder Mug serving as a stand is, because he has quite a few around, he might find this one useful for these purposes ( i have a few, myself ). I hope he doesn't mind that i post here some of the stuff he has in the gardens. . Attached Images Last edited by fernando; 14th January 2012 at 08:22 PM.