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anonymous

Swivel Gun

Borneo, 1800 - 1856

Object data

wood, iron and brass

total: length 119 cm × diameter 11.8 cm
length 13 cm
length 106 cm
calibre 16 mm × weight 30.6 kg

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1105

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Swivel gun with octagonal barrel and ornamented stock.

This swivel gun, which had a barrel of Borneo make,1 was captured from pirates near Tanjung Pulisan on the north-eastern tip of Celebes by Amsterdam in April 1856.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1105

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Swivel Gun, Borneo, 1800 - 1856', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244920

(accessed 20 September 2024 09:36:34).

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