Artist/Maker
Mason & Cunningham
Mediummetal (iron)
Object number00.206.270
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionWhaling gun (cannon) for Mason & Cunningham bomb lances/harpoons. Trunnion mount has hollow socket for mounting on a post and set screw to secure it to the post; post missing; front sight missing; stamped on top of breech-block and running off the edges is PAT (patent). Note: appears as #178 (p. 222) in Lytle's "Harpoons and Other Whalecraft" published by the ODHS in 1984.On View
Not on view
Mason, Henry W.
Pierce, Ebenezer - attributed
1745-1925
Mason, Henry W.
Brand, Christopher C.
Mason, Henry W.
Brand, Christopher C.
Cunningham, Patrick
