Large Guns: Cannons, Etc

Singapore 1992 National Service 25th Anniversary

Spain 2015 250th Anniversary of the Royal Artillery College

Ascension Island
Guns on Ascension Island
July 19, 1985
32-pounder smooth bore muzzle loader ca. 1820
7-inch rifled muzzle loader ca. 1866
7-pounder rifled muzzle loader ca. 1877
5.5-inch gun from HMS Hood

Lebanon
Army Day
August 1, 1971
Set of 4; one stamp shows a howitzer in the field.

Serbia
160 Years of Kragujevac Factory "Zastava Oruzje AD"
November 28, 2013
Zastava Arms is a Serbian manufacturer of firearms and artillery, based in Kragujevac, Serbia. It was founded in 1853 when it cast its first cannons. It is the leading producer of firearms in Serbia and is a large contributor to the local defense industry. Zastava Arms produces and exports a wide variety of products to over forty countries.

Gibraltar
Definitive Issue - Artillery Pieces
June 1, 1987
13-inch Mortar (1783)
6-inch Coast Gun (1909)
8-inch Howitzer (1783)
Bofors L 40/70 (1951)
100-ton Rifled Muzzle-Loading Gun (1882)
5.25-inch Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun (1953)
25-pounder Howitzer (1943)
64-pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loading Gun (1873)
12-pounder (1758)
10-inch Rifled Muzzle-Loading Gun (1870)
Russian 24-pounder (1854)
9.2-inch MK. 10 Coast Gun (1935)
24-pounder (1779)

Here is an image of a stamp depicting Polish-Lithuanian military leader Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817) leading a street battle against the Russians in Kraków, designed and engraved by Boguslaw Brandt (1909-1983), and issued by Poland on November 30, 1954 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the 160th anniversary of Kosciuszko's Insurrection, Scott No. 659.

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St Helena
200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
May 10, 2005
Set of six; one stamp depicts the British 18 Pounder Naval Pattern Cannon.

South Africa
War Efforts with both English and Afrikaans Inscriptions
August 1, 1942
One design shows a heavy gun.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting the "super-cannon" from French author Jules Verne's novel Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum ("The Begum's Millions," 1879), designed by Bernard Minne, engraved by French artist Jean Miermont (1915-1973), and issued by Monaco on June 7, 1955 as one of a set of eleven stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Jules Verne (1828-1905), Scott No. 344, plus an image of an illustration by French painter and illustrator Léon Benett (1839-1917) depicting the fictional super-cannon, capable of firing massive incendiary charges and gas shells over a distance of 40 km (about 25 miles).

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Gibraltar
The History of Gibraltar
May 9, 2000
A set of 16 stamps, one shows a 100 ton gun in the 1870s.

View of Prince's Palace of Monaco with a couple of pieces of field artillery in the foreground, designed and engraved by French artist Claude Jumelet (1946- ), and issued by Monaco in 1980, Scott No. 1148.

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Isle of Man
WWI - Battle of the Somme
February 17, 2016
The set of six stamps commemorate the centenary of the largest and bloodiest battle of World War I on the Western Front. One stamp depicts a British heavy artillery gun in action.

Old Main Guard Garrison, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in Barbados on March 2, 1956, Scott No. 243.

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France
The Imperial Guard of Napoleon I
June 28, 2004
The Imperial Guard was a group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I. The Guard was divided into the staff, infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments, as well as battalions of sappers and marines.
One of the six stamps in this set shows artillery.