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Lilliputian Naval Guns

IT’S funny how obsessions and life-long passions can often spring from the simplest of occurrences. That was the case with miniature cannon builder, canoneer, and naval armament expert, Andrew Creighton.

Andrew, a Pretoria architect who grew up in Standerton, says when he was a kid he read an old copy of . The start of each chapter featured a beautiful illustration of an eighteenth-century merchantman sailing ship, which unlocked his fascination. In the tale,

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