A SMALL LOBSTER-TAILED POT, the one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with separate ring-shaped finial, pointed fixed fall (holed) with turned edge, struck with armourer's mark, IS, and pierced for the moveable nasal held by a staple and wing-screw, neck-guard of five upward-lapping lames, the bottom lame with turned and roped edge, pierced single-plate cheek-pieces, and domed brass rivets and turned edges throughout, second quarter of the 17th Century, probably German

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A SMALL LOBSTER-TAILED POT, the one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with separate ring-shaped finial, pointed fixed fall (holed) with turned edge, struck with armourer's mark, IS, and pierced for the moveable nasal held by a staple and wing-screw, neck-guard of five upward-lapping lames, the bottom lame with turned and roped edge, pierced single-plate cheek-pieces, and domed brass rivets and turned edges throughout, second quarter of the 17th Century, probably German
11¼in. high