A RARE EAST EUROPEAN POWDER-FLASK for a wheel-lock Tschinke, the wooden body flat at the back, the front inlaid with a design of overlapping scales heightened with brass dots within borders of twisted brass wire, at the centre a circular brass panel engraved with a star-shaped design surrounded by mother-of-pearl circles, the top and sides covered with brass, brass nozzle and two brass rings for suspension, third quarter of the 17th Century

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A RARE EAST EUROPEAN POWDER-FLASK for a wheel-lock Tschinke, the wooden body flat at the back, the front inlaid with a design of overlapping scales heightened with brass dots within borders of twisted brass wire, at the centre a circular brass panel engraved with a star-shaped design surrounded by mother-of-pearl circles, the top and sides covered with brass, brass nozzle and two brass rings for suspension, third quarter of the 17th Century
5¼in.
Provenance
E.J. Churchill Collection, Orange Street Gunworks, London W.C.2

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