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Lot Essay
Cf. a similar powder-flask (dated 1603) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Claude Blair (gen. ed.), Pollard's History of Firearms, plate 357
Details
A GERMAN POWDER-FLASK
With flattened cow-horn body encased in brass, the front pierced with scrolls enclosing a standing figure of a musketeer, the brass nozzle of tapering rectangular section (belt hook missing, finial of cut-off lever detached)
8¼in. (21cm.)
With flattened cow-horn body encased in brass, the front pierced with scrolls enclosing a standing figure of a musketeer, the brass nozzle of tapering rectangular section (belt hook missing, finial of cut-off lever detached)
8¼in. (21cm.)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.