Captured Ordnance, Captured ordnance, Gun, Bronze front loader, European type. The barrel has a wreath-shaped mouth, first, second and highest jewelery bands, and bands at the mouth and in front of the highest jewelery band, and two thin and two thick breech bands. On the tap section the taps and two dolphins, where the dolphins are attached to the barrel, the barrel has diamond-shaped decorations of nail notches. The flat breech is decorated with pointed motifs, the grape has a bud shape. The sun hole, surrounded by a rectangular raised edge, has a button for a sun hole cover on either side. Before the zundgat an oval monogrammed cartouche of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC, and the inscriptions, Amsterdam, Batavia, Djambi, Dutch East India Company, Laurens Oxsen (circle of), 1667, bronze (metal), founding, total: l 136 cm × d 33.5 cm l 14.5 cm l 121.5 cm c 6.7 cm × w 210 kg muzzle-vent: l 112 cm d 7.6 cm base ring: d 22.3 cm trunnion: d 6.7 cm barrel: d 13.3 cm × d 20.5 cm
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Captured Ordnance, Captured ordnance, Gun, Bronze front loader, European type, barrel, wreath-shaped mouth, first, second, highest jewelery bands, bands, mouth, front, highest jewelery band, two thin, two thick breech bands, tap section, taps, two dolphins, dolphins, attached, diamond-shaped decorations, nail notches, flat breech, decorated, pointed motifs, grape, bud shape, sun hole, surrounded, rectangular raised edge, button, sun hole cover, side, zundgat, oval monogrammed cartouche, Amsterdam chamber, VOC, inscriptions, Amsterdam, Batavia, Djambi, Dutch East India Company, Laurens Oxsen, circle, 1667, bronze, metal, founding, total, l 136
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