Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Russian cannon
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:53:23 -0500
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Looks as if it belongs there.? You are lucky.? All of the old cannon in 
my home town were turned in to the salvage drive to support WWII !

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/7/2018 4:41 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Local wags have placed a Burger King crown to decorate a cannon on Dun 
> Laoghaire pier. The cannon overlooking Scotsman's Bay and the James 
> Joyce Tower at Sandycove, is a Russian one captured during the Crimean 
> War in the 19th century - probably at the siege of Sevastapol. It has 
> the Romanov coat of arms embossed on it. Sony A7ii with kit zoom.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dublin/Dun+Laoghaire/DL+11062018+Burger+King+Cannon+East+Pier.jpg.html
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