Artist/Maker
Brown, Frank E.
Mediummetal
Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer
Object number2001.100.3507
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA darting gun mechanism: a 1882 breech-loading model of the Pierce darting gun with a ramrod (T-654-B) and one bomb lance. The gun is lacking rubber feathers (T-654-C) and is unmounted.ProvenancePatented April 1882 by Ebenezer Pierce, New Bedford. Provenance: Bourne, 7 August 1990, #171; illus. Frank E. Brown broadside, ca 1880s (P-A 2849); See Lytle, Thomas G. HARPOONS AND OTHER WHALECRAFT. New Bedford: The Old Dartmouth Historical Society / Whaling Museum, 1984. p. 65.On View
Not on view
Brown, Frank E.
Pierce, Ebenezer
Pierce, Ebenezer
Brown, Frank E.
Brown, Frank E.
