A RARE SCOTTISH POWDER HORN

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A RARE SCOTTISH POWDER HORN
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
stopper lacking

Of flattened cow horn, the broad base with wooden plug, the point of the horn cut-away to form a nozzle, stopper lacking and with a suspension hole, carved to one side with crossed swords, a crown, fleur-de-lys and heart, motto Mereor Ni Me Prome, a band of scrolling foliage and a serpent's head, these latter two devices repeated on the other side and further decorated with a Jacobite rose enclosed by a serpent
length 8in. (20.3cm)

Lot Essay

For a very similar powder horn cf. Drummond, No. 146, plate XXI, Drummond states that the horn was in Perth Museum but since then was unfortunately stolen in circa 1962, present location unknown. Drummond states that it is probably of Continental manufacture

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