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I purchased the cannon from a gallery in California. The gallery owner described the cannon as follows: falconet cannon circa 1550 of European manufacture possibly Prussian or Flemish. Description: iron and bronze, the iron barrel is octagonal from the breech to the bronze trunions. Between the bronze trunions and the bronze muzzle the barrel is round. The overall length of the barrel is 42 inches; the diameter of the bore is 1.5 inches.
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