A LARGE GERMAN CARTRIDGE-BOX (PATRON) OF SAXON TYPE

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A LARGE GERMAN CARTRIDGE-BOX (PATRON) OF SAXON TYPE
With wooden body of plano-convex section covered with black velvet, widening towards the base and drilled for seven cartridges, the interior fitted with an iron plate reinforcing the cartridge apertures, spring-actuated lid with button release, turned roped basal edge, etched throughout with characteristic designs of scrolling foliage involving a pair of grotesque masks, a frieze of animals and exotic birds around the base, a stork on the central panel, a phoenix on the lid, all on a contrasting blackened granular ground, and fitted with belt hook at the rear.
5½in (14cm)

Provenance

Frank E. Bivens, Jr.

Literature

F.Theodore Dexter, Half Century Scrapbook of Vari-type Firearms, 1960, pl.13, No.1949

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

A further example, similar, dated 1559, see Jean-Pierre Reverseau, Museé de l'Armée, Paris, Les Armes et la vie, 1982, p.162, fig.9.

For another, very similar, see M. Rade, Koenigliches Historisches Museum zu Dresden, auswahl von Ornamenten zum Praktischen Gebrauch, Vol II, Dresden, 1884.

A further example, similar, dated 1559, see Jean-Pierre Reverseau, Musée de l'Armee, Paris, Les Armes et la Vie, 1982, p.162, fig.9.

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