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> It is a triple-ring cast cannon with a flared muzzle. What are the rings for actually? Decoration?

• akiselev 3y ago
  Those are trunnions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion 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.
  • rcme 3y ago
    Those don’t look the same? Trunnions look like they’re a separate cylinder perpendicular to the barrel. These things go around the barrel.
    • akiselev 3y ago
      Ah I was under the mistaken impression that the term applied to the rings too