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These two guns seem an unusual choice for trophy guns:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12387998@N02/4706538597/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12387998@N02/4706533687/

From St. Louis Punk-Rocker's photostream on flickr



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Possibly not - the revolver gun looks like a Krupp licence-built Hotchkiss 37mm revolver cannon - more at:

http://landships.activeboard.com/t43039340/37mm-hotchkiss-revolving-cannon-2-new-photographs/

However, the US Navy, used the Hotchkiss gun as well so it may not be a WW1 gun at all.

The other gun is (I think) a US designed and built 37mm infantry support gun. I've seen info on this gun but can't

find it at the moment.

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Charlie



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The Manual of light artillery 1896 details the Hotchkiss revolver cannon...

The secound gun may be a 1pdr QF 1902 on field mount...

Both US guns I would say...

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Sunday 7th of July 2013 11:53:26 AM

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Hi,

Not normally interested in guns (Did I say that out aloud?confuse)... but... couldn't help noticing that the gun had a shoulder rest like on the navy guns fitted to the tanks, is this normal for land artillery? 

I did try to look it up... failed. no But did find a nice site selling artillery of all ages. Sounded naff! but some interesting stuff on there. Cannon Superstore.

Helen x



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The second gun is indeed US designed and built - it's a Bethlehem Steel 37mm gun, the "semi-automatic" model.  A handful were sold to France and were going to be used as anti-tank weapons, but apparently most were sent back to the US without ever being used.  I think I've seen it referred to as the "M1918", but I wouldn't swear to it.

If you look closely you can see slots in the recoil mechanism, this may be one of the "cut-away instruction guns" mentioned by Robert Mellichamp in the latest volume of "A Gun For All Nations".  The cut-away sections helped show the working parts, either to recruits being trained on the piece or perhaps to potential customers. 



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