Breechloading Cannon

Welch, Alexander McMillan. "Recent Accessions in the Armor Department." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (July 1918), p. 164, ill. (text refers to a different cannon, acc. no. 18.40.1).

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Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. p. 86, ill.

Smith, Robert D., Nautical Archaeological Society, and Council for Nautical Archaeology. "Towards a New Typology for Wrought Iron Ordnance." The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 17, no. 5 pp. 5–16.

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