Original French Early 19th Century Bronze Mortar with Gargoyle Touch Hole and Serpent Arch Vietnam This ammunition box was used

This ammunition box was used to safely transport FLAK shells

preliminary to entering to the Italian campaign

it could be smoothed out with nary a rustle

Army Engineers and native labor during World War II from the tea plantation province of Assam in India

Starting at the nose

Original French Early 19th Century Bronze Mortar with Gargoyle Touch Hole and Serpent Arch Vietnam This ammunition box was usedOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a special piece that originated from our purchase of a cache of antique arms and ordnance from Kathmandu, Nepal. Presumably this bronze mortar was given to the Kingdom of Nepal by the British who had taken it from the French possibly at the Battle of the Heights of Abraham at Quebec (1759) or possibly from one of the famous Battles the British fought the French in India like the Battle of Plassey (1757) or at the