18th century swivel gun – £4100 at Barbara Kirk.
Including seafaring, tin, copper, studio potteries and fishing, Barbara Kirk’s (15% buyer’s premium) Penzance sale covered just about everything from the region bar pasties.
Topping the 950-lot September 28-29 sale was an 18th century bronze swivel gun. Designed to sweep an enemy’s decks with small shot, it had been recovered from the wreck of HMS Association off the Isles of Scilly where, along with three other warships under the command of Sir Couldesley Shovell, she sank in 1707 in one of the worst maritime disasters in Royal Navy history.