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Lot 120*

A Rare Scottish Cow-Horn Powder-Flask
Date 1679

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Scottish Cow-Horn Powder-Flask
Date 1679

Of characteristic flattened form incised on the front with cross bands and circles of interlaced ornament heightened with chipwork, and below the nozzle with a thistle above the date, the lower edge of the body incised with two parallel bands of ropework, the back with two concentric circles each centred on a stylised flower-head, the wooden base-plate with a copper-alloy suspension-loop
36.2 cm.

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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

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