A silver mounted leather blackjack

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A silver mounted leather blackjack
of baluster outline and with rounded triangular handle, the mount to the rim with cut trefoils, the cartouche to the body repoussé and punch decorated with rocaille, the oval panel to the centre with dotted letters C.P.D. above a cross, the date 1601 crudely incised below, English -- 9¾in. (24.6cm) high

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Oliver Baker, Black Jacks and Leather Bottells, Jan 1921. P.130.

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