{"id":7053,"date":"2013-07-06T01:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2013-07-06T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T23:56:22","slug":"large-toy-cannon-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=7053","title":{"rendered":"Large toy cannon, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last and largest of the three cannons I purchased as a lot last November. It measures 12-1\/4&#8243; long, 4-3\/4&#8243; tall and I believe it\u00a0was made in America in the late 1800s. When a young boy played a bit too rough and broke the toy cannon one Fourth of July in the early 1900s, I imagine his handy dad or grandfather\u00a0carved a wood base to replace the broken cast iron original,\u00a0adding embellishments such as paper stars and the letters &#8220;U S&#8221;\u00a0to its sides. The barrel, with\u00a0remains of the original black surface, sits on a metal plate and is\u00a0fastened to the wood trolley using metal straps. The carved wood wheels are connected to a wood axel with metal pins and a strip of tin edging is attached to the back tail using numerous nail heads. I love the original dark green painted surface\u00a0with gold trim and alligator finish, consistent on all three of the cannons, suggesting that they were repaired by the same person or at least in the same household. Please take a look at these other two posts, including a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=7191\">small<\/a> and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=7055\">medium-sized<\/a>\u00a0cannon, which make up the remainder of this terrific trio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5440\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5440.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5441\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5441.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5444\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5444.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5445\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5445.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5447\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5447.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This intact bronze cannon with fanciful trolly shows where the inspiration came from for the carved wood base on mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bronze-cannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7718\" alt=\"bronze cannon\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bronze-cannon.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bronze-cannon.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bronze-cannon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveauctioneers.com\">Live Auctioneers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last and largest of the three cannons I purchased as a lot last November. It measures 12-1\/4&#8243; long, 4-3\/4&#8243; tall and I believe it\u00a0was made in America in the late 1800s. When a young boy played a bit too rough and broke the toy cannon one Fourth of July in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[62,123,154,12],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy","tag-american","tag-iron","tag-metal-bands","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}