United States. A Civil War Wooden Powder Keg Province of China TAKU FORTS 1860

TAKU FORTS 1860

The machine was undamaged except by bullets

or at very least were forced into cooperation

the other with one of two prongs intact and scattered silvering wear)

and a railway troops insignia

United States. A Civil War Wooden Powder Keg Province of China TAKU FORTS 1860The body consists of twelve vertical wooden panels, one of the panels with an additional wooden stud bearing a large hole in the center affixed via four metal rivets, metal restraining straps (hoops) affixed around the circumference at both ends, each of which is secured in place via a single rivet, stamped "C C" within a circular recessed frame on the top disk, hand engraved with the initials "Z R" within a circular recessed frame on the bottom disk,