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Museum Quality Models & Miniatures
This website is a showcase of a private collection of highend quality bronze, brass and wooden cannons, mortars and reproduction of ancient models in different scales and from different ages. Feel free to contact us if interested in purchasing any of them.
American Civil War, 1861
3-inch Ordnance Rifle with limber.
Scale 1:16 by Ugo Crisponi
An extremely fine exhibition scale model in display case.
Based on a 1:16 scale kit by US company 'Guns of History Model Expo'. Historically accurate and perfectly scaled, entirely casted in Britannia white metal. Realistic spoked wheels with rims & axel, a smooth, accurately detailed gun barrel, scale water & grease buckets, sponge & rammer heads.
The overall model is 41 cm in lenght. It's finely set in an highend 50 cm showcase with a glossy black base made in Germany.
3-inch Ordnance Rifle M1861
Widely used by field artillery units during the American Civil War, the 3-inch Ordnance Rifle model 1861 was an iron muzzleloading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861. The bore (caliber) had a diameter of 3.0 in (76 mm). Its gun barrel weighed 820 lb (371.9 kg) and fired a projectile weighing 9.5 lb (4.3 kg) to a distance of 1,830 yd (1,670 m). The 3-inch rifle was not as effective in firing canister shot as the heavier 12-pounder "Napoleon", but it proved to be highly accurate at longer ranges when firing common shells or spherical case shots. The Confederate States Army employed those captured from the northern Federal forces but lacked the technology to manufacture reliable copies of this weapon.
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