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Krupp

Cast Iron Sample, Taken from a Gun

Essen, 1859

Object data

iron

height 10.4 cm × width 8.8 cm × depth 7 cm

Provenance

...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, February 1859;1 transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-957

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Sample of cast iron, with one rough side, and two opposed curved sides, the one convex and the other concave.

The identification of this particular sample as number 957 on the inventory list, is based on probability only. According to Obreen’s catalogue, number 957 was a sample of cast iron that De Fremery presented to the Navy Model Room in February 1859.2 It was taken from a 60-pounder gun, which was cast by Krupp for the Dutch Navy but rejected because of a small error at the trunnions.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 957

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Krupp, Cast Iron Sample, Taken from a Gun, Essen, 1859', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244771

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