A GERMAN CIRCULAR POWDER-FLASK with iron-mounted turned wooden body carved with owner's initails PK on the central boss on one side, and with the date on the other, the thin top mount pierced with a flowerhead at each end and carrying the nozzle, the spring for the tap, and two rectangular rings for suspension, the arm and thumbpiece of the tap pierced with circular holes, the plain thin base mount reinforced at the centre, dated 1678