It's only about 12 inches long (don't you wish you could say that), and was probably used more as currency than as any serious weapon, although it may have fired charges (no ball or shot) for salutes, signaling, or ceremony aboard a ship.
Regardless, this is a piece reportedly recovered from a shipwreck in Southeast Asia. It has calcification around the dolphins, touch hole, and cascabel, so it may have been. It has a "certificate of provenance", but pretty much everybody has a laser printer these days, so who knows its real origin.
I have nothing left to say on this one.
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