8-point fire pipe
Army Museum

8-point fire pipe

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Army Museum

Group A I. Made in 1805, corresponding to the year 13 after the republican count, 15. prairéal = May 24th. The grape is slightly pointed globular. Bottom piece: On the chamber sirs there is a language ribbon-like field with carved restraints and small-rotted bottom (in puncture technique) and the inscription (the letters appear by contour engraving; their bottom is uncut): METZ LE 5/PRAIRI/ALAN 13. The letters in this party are larger and more carefully executed and the bottom of the band is punched with a finer instrument than on the haubites AM 10099, AM 10100 and AM 10101. On the chamber sirs there is a right deep notch, marked with/in the text above. Prison is missing. The barrel sits just in front of the chamber sirats. The stud piece: The shape of the stud board and the position of the stud on it: (left pin seen from left). (Picture of the 1932 form). The right pin is marked No 73 in circle (engraved). The left is marked P K 293 in a circle (pictured) (engraved). The Long Field: In the middle between the Throat Piece and the Drum, there is a crested monogram cartusch: Napoleon I’s monogram, an N (with engraved outlines and punched bottom) framed by a leaf wreath (in contour engraving). One half of the leaf wreath is ripped off by an oak twig, the other by a bearing twig; these are bound down by a band and passed at the top in a crown. Both the wreath, the band and the crown scars in the execution slightly different corresponding ornaments on the haubitses AM 10099, AM 10100, AM 10101. All ornamentation on this haubit is more carefully and elegantly executed. The drum: Trumpet reinforced (mkt. short trumpet). On either side of the trump there is a right deep notch (note that there is no one at the top of the trump), corresponding to them at the chamber sirats. The relative length of the race is 6 caliber. Bottom piece: Elder length 102 cm. Bottom piece: Bott.st. max diam 22.5-23 cm., d: o min diam 22.5 mm. Kam-sir br. 5.5 cm. The Tapppiece: Tappst. position 24 cm, Tappst. br. 32 cm. Tappst. Diam 24.5 cm. Delf. position 34-34.5 cm. Delf. l. 15.5-16 cm. Delf. height 8 cm. Tappsk. position 37 cm. Tap Mode I: 39 cm. Tap Mode II. Tappl. 10-10.5 cm. Tappdiam 10 cm. Long Field: L.fielding. max diam 23.5 cm. L. Field. my diam 22 cm. Drum max diam 25.5 cm.

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