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Originally Posted by Graebarde
A half pounder cannon!!! Bore/gauge is number of lead balls bore sized to make a pound. The 2-gauge also has a bore of 1.326" (33.67mm). A frikin' cannon!!
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I've seen about as bad, if not worse, in St Etienne's guns and cycles manufacture's 1900 catalogue : the '37mm canardière canon' - a 37mm duck gun.
Which was also declined in an almost exactly identical version as a defense gun for yachts and other boats.
Gun laws at that time were fairly lenient...
That catalogue also held a lot of fun guns, including some borderline insane revolvers aimed apaprently at the balkan area's market. Things like a 20-shots, twin-barelled .38 revolver.