Antique French MF Cast Iron Blank Firing Garden / Home Alarm or Signal Cannon
$ 35.64$ 21.38
Availability: 100 in stock
Country/Region of Manufacture:France
Featured Refinements:Garden / Home alarm
All returns accepted:ReturnsNotAccepted
Condition:Very good
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Today out of a local estate comes this French made alarm cannon. It is a black-painted, miniature 12 gauge blank firing cannon. These little cannons , being made since the early 1800’s, having a spring-loaded mechanism, are wired to the house or garden with a trip wire or twine and will alert(or scare off) burgslars or garden thieves. This one is marked "MF" for "Manufacture Francaise” and states only use with blanks. It is about 6 3/4”long.. Some black paint missing has minor patina and works. Payment via ebays new payment system at auction end with .50 shipping.