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Lot 125
[MILITARY ENGINEERING] 27 original pen-and-ink engineering designs for munition carriages.
Italian: likely mid-late 19th century. Old leather-backed marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces. 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches; 27 sequentially numbered elaborate renderings on guarded card mounts. Binding worn, some foxing and staining, but generally in sound condition, a unique survival.
The drawings, which are extremely elaborate and of great elegance, appear to be the complete engineering specifications produced by a major munitions firm, though which this is is unidentified. Included are the designs for a Model 1844 and an 1850 Carro de Munizioni, drawn to one-tenth scale. A prominent and rather alarming feature of these remarkable vehicles (which appear to have been designed for use on paved roads) is the built-in giant axe, presumably the better to detach anything burning before the wagon exploded. Typically, a piece of field artillery would have been yoked behind one of these carriages.
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