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Brand's lance, No. 2. 



Old, not exploded. Cut from a dead whale. Eubber wings scorched 

 by the discharge of the gun. Length, 21 inches. Edgartown, 

 Massachusetts, 1882. 56360. Gift of C. B. Marchant. 



Series of exploded bomb-lances cut from dead whales. 



Three with rubber wings, and one with metal wings. Fragmentary 

 pieces. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. 56362-'3-'4-'5. 

 Gift of Patrick Cunningham. 



Non-Explosive Lances. 



projected from guns. 

 Ghenn's lance. 



Stock, wood, slotted longitudinally the entire length for the recep- 

 tion of a small line, one end of which is made fast to the butt; 

 the other has an eye-splice for bending on the lance-warp. 

 This line, or "lance-strap," having been placed in the longi- 

 tudinal slot, a strip of paper is pasted over it to hold it in a 

 proper position when loaded in the gun. The rear end of the 

 shank is slotted through the wood to form receptacles for the 

 wings. The wings, two in number, are made of tin soldered to 

 wires, which latter act as springs to compress the wings when 

 placed in the gun-barrel, and to elevate them radially when the 

 instrument is projected. The head, or cutting-point, resembles 

 in shape that of the old double-barbed hand-harpoon, but is 

 smaller; barbs slightly recurved; short neck, terminating in 

 a socket for the reception of the forward end of the wooden 

 shank and strengthened by a lead ferule. Length, 23| inches. 

 Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1882. 56356. Gift of Seth 

 Smith. One of the original models. Manufactured and used, 

 to a limited extent, by Captain Josiah Ghenn, of Provincetown, 

 Massachusetts. In about 1849 Captain Ghenn made several 

 of these lances to be fired from a shoulder-gun into the whale 

 after it had been harpooned ; but, upon being notified that this 

 pattern was an infringement on C. C. Brand's patent, he dis- 

 continued their manufacture. 



Brown's non-explosive gun-lance. 



Head double-barbed, fixed, with lanceolate blades. Entire head 

 cast iron (case-hardened). Shank, cast iron, flat and fluted on 

 both sides for the reception of rope-tails, which are intended to 

 be used as wings. Eye in the rear end of shaft. Button want- 

 ing. Detachable button. Length, 36| inches. New Bedford, 

 Massachusetts, 1882. 56217. Gift of Thomas Knowles & Co. 

 Patented by Eobert Brown, New London, Connecticut, August 

 20, 1850. Not used at present. 



