A LOBSTER-TAILED POT, the one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with separate ring-shaped finial, pointed fixed fall with turned edge and stamped 'A 1710', pierced for a moveable bar nasal held by a staple and wing-screw, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of four upward-lapping lames, and pierced single-plate cheek-pieces (releathered), the surface blackened throughout, second quarter of 17th Century, probably German