Flea market find is medieval hand cannon
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Sound like good targets, though.
You fight with what you have which isn't always a stockpile of cannon balls.
When cannonballs hit ships splinters often provided area of effect carnage. However, on an open field a cannonball would only harm a few people and could simply miss.
I'm confident the charity shop 'volunteers' make good scratch off of having first pickings on everything that comes in.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, however, were the extremely fun poorly translated ones. “Spell Slame”, “GGGG”, “Rock Corrosion Devil - Love Fake”. I think my favorite though was a “Storm King” I traded for a legit Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. I told the kid like 3 times it was fake, but he was bound and determined. Worked out for me, since I ran Blue-Eyes, but was just very weird.
It kind of is. Not in that way though. Flea-markets aren't really a thing in England at least by name. So this was probably a jumble sale or a car boot sale.
A jumble sale is a small indoor ad hoc second hand market probably not on any very regular schedule. They're usually run by small groups (church congregations, scouts, womens' institute) for fundraising and social purposes with the items donated and all the proceeds going to the group.
A car boot sale is held in a parking lot or field, where the sellers pay for the pitch and the buyers sometimes pay to enter. As the name suggests, many of the pitches will just be sellers with a car full of junk. They may be run commercially or by groups with access to suitable grounds (e.g. a rugby club). They're more work and staff to organise so they're often on a regular schedule (e.g. first Saturday of the month).
I love flea-markets of all types :)
In America we also have car boot sales, although “jumble sales” are called rummage sales here.
And yeah, whatever ya call them it’s always fun exploring and buying other people’s stuff. I especially love crystal glass bowls and jars. That and other shiny things bring out the corvid in me.
Incidentally I now live in Sweden where Loppis (literally "flea") markets are common and delightful. Some are all year around affairs while others just pop up at the weekends in the countryside summer months as the population sweeps out of the cities for their summer vacations. I love poking around through other peoples' crap!
One last thought - my family used to swing by an antiques auction in Tring in Hertfordshire (the county this cannon was discovered in). Over the years a variety of bits and pieces were acquired there - some rather nice. After my parents died they did the house clearance for us. Dust to dust...
With artifacts like this, the story that goes with it makes up a lot of the value.
I need to keep my eyes on auctions apparently, as I’d gladly have paid a bit more for that
$2,500 is a lot of money for a useless item, but also not a lot of money. Many people own vehicles worth 20 of those items. I'd prefer 20 items.
FYI you can buy Roman coins much older and much cheaper because they are so prevalent.
Storage units won't have anything valuable in them; it doesn't make sense for the owning company to not open it up themselves and pick out the most valuables. It does make sense to have a group of idiots who've seen carefully directed TV shows pay money for the rest of the crap and empty it out for them.
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All antique firearms which are, sold, transferred, purchased or possessed as `curiosities` or `ornaments` are exempt (under section 58(2)) from the licensing and restrictions of use provisions in the Firearms Act 1968.
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What are the rings for actually? Decoration?
What they’re doing on a hand cannon beats me. They’re probably either decorative, meant for transport, or the blacksmiths making them just got used to making rings on cannons and kept doing it when scaled down.