MISCELLANEA
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A SPANISH COLONIAL POWDER-FLASK, the cow-horn body engraved with a double-headed bird, a snake, a crowned lion, flowerheads and foliage, and inscribed 'Viva Jesvs I Maria 1754' and 'Viva El Rei Don Fernado Sesto', wooden base-plug carved with a cross, turned iron nozzle with cut-off, curved iron belt hook, and three rings for suspension, dated 1754; and a gunner's cow-horn powder-flask, the body branded twice with War Department mark, brass nozzle (repaired) and tap, wooden screw-in base-plug, and two iron suspension rings, 19th Century
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A SPANISH COLONIAL POWDER-FLASK, the cow-horn body engraved with a double-headed bird, a snake, a crowned lion, flowerheads and foliage, and inscribed 'Viva Jesvs I Maria 1754' and 'Viva El Rei Don Fernado Sesto', wooden base-plug carved with a cross, turned iron nozzle with cut-off, curved iron belt hook, and three rings for suspension, dated 1754; and a gunner's cow-horn powder-flask, the body branded twice with War Department mark, brass nozzle (repaired) and tap, wooden screw-in base-plug, and two iron suspension rings, 19th Century
8½in. and 13¼in. (2)
8½in. and 13¼in. (2)