Model of a Gun on a Slide and Pivot

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-799

Wooden model of a gun on a slide and pivot, mounted on a base.

The wooden barrel is 13.9 cm long and not bored. The carriage, trapezoidal in plan, consists of two cheeks with four steps, connected by a transom and the axletrees. The hind axletree is missing. The carriage has no trucks, but slides with its cheeks on the ledges of the slide. The slide is a wooden frame consisting of two ledges connected by cross-beams at the extremities and in the middle. It has rollers underneath to ease the movement on the tracks of the pivot. The tracks are laid on a raised wooden circle; the central piece, which should have the pivot bolt, is missing.

The gun represented is probably a 30-pounder. The pivot is rather primitive: the rollers at the extremities of the ledges are not placed radially to the pivot bolt.

Scale (estimate) 1:20.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 799

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Gun on a Slide and Pivot, Netherlands, c. 1830 - c. 1840', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244613