16-leaved fire pipe

Siöblad, Johan

Group F I. Fire pipe t 16 solder cannon m 3 race, nr 2 Sjöbladh. 1708. The relative length of the race is 29 cal. According to Captain F A Spak in the 1888 Catalogue: The cannon is of metal and bronze. The chamber piece is adorned with Karl XII’s name cipher, and on the long field Cerberus is visible “with a three-jawed gap.” On the chamber band is the inscription “ME FECIT GERHARDT MEYER HOLMIAE” (Gerhardt Meyer in Stockholm made me). The cannon is painted in a sleigh lichen, intended for two horses, and of the kind, used for the 3-point regiments during the king’s winter rim trains in Russia and Poland. The drawing is in the drawing archive. According to Notes in Catalogue of the Army Museum, 1943: AM 35 and 36. "With three races according to the general field master Sjöblad’s construction. At one play, the walls of the flea according to the change model of the artillery colonel Helmfelt are broken through, so that all three can be loaded at the same time. On the chamber piece Karl XII’s name cipher and on the long field Cerberus. The sleigh lichen, intended for two horses, is of the kind used for the 3-point regiments during the field train in Russia.