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New York, Circa 1895

NAVAL ELECTRIC CO. BRASS U.S. NAVY SIGNAL CANNON WITH TRIPOD

Rare example built specifically as a signal cannon as it was made to fire blank shells. Deeply engraved near loading breech "U.S.N. OR 251 C 5.18". Brass barrel with raised band at trunnions and a sight mounted at the top. Rotating brass handle used to slide the breach into the block and lock it in place. Retains original trunnion caps, bots, and a brass and black-painted steel collapsible tripod. Cannon is fired by pulling a cord that activates a hammer to strike a firing pin that in turn strikes the back of the shell. Modified with a new 10-ga. shell reducer so that it can fire commercially available shells, making it far more usable.
Height on tripod 27.5". Cannon length 39.75". Total length on tripod 65".

  • Provenance:
    From the collection of Jack Warner. Jack Warner (d. 2017), a businessman and philanthropist, was renowned for assembling one of the greatest private collections of American art, which included hundreds of paintings, sculpture, furniture and decorative art representing masterpieces from the 18th Century through the early 20th Century, notably works by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. He was also an avid collector of nautical antiques and established the North River Yacht Club in 1978, where he displayed many of his fine marine antiques at the club house. In recognition of his collection, Warner was awarded the Frederic Edwin Church Award in 2010. Warner's collecting achievement was also recognized in 2011 by the naming of the newly-opened Jack and Susan Warner Hudson River Gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of American Art in New York. Warner's remarkable collection was displayed and operated by his foundation in the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art from 2002 until 2011, attracting thousands of visitors to Tuscaloosa, Alabama each year.

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