Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — Gold and Sliver Guns. [ARTICLE]

Gold and Sliver Guns.

The Goekwar of Baroda, an Indian prince, had a battery of artillery consisting of gold and silver guns. There are four guns, two of gold and two of silver. The gold guns were made In 1874 by an artisan of Lskba, who worked on them for flVe years. They weigh 400 pounds each, and except for the steel lining, are of solid gold. They are mounted on gun-carriages of carved wood, overlaid with silver. In 1870, when the Gaekwar went to Bombay to meet the Prince of Wales, he took tho gold guns with him to salute the Prince, and that was the only occasion on which they have been allowed to leave the State of Baroda.