The first comprising a powder-flask for percussion target rifles, the bag-shaped copper body with bevelled edge, brass top stamped 'James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield', and adjustable nozzle calibrated from '55' to '105 Grains', a large powder-flask with lacquered bag-shaped body embossed on each side with a sportsman resting beneath a tree hung with his shooting equipment, his gun dog and a dead stag nearby, two rings for suspension, and retaining its green suspension cord (worn) and remains of tassels, another of Purdey type, with bag-shaped body covered in brown pigskin, and white-metal top with fixed nozzle stamped '2¼ Drams', another, with ovoidal copper body hollowed along the back and with circular horn inspection window on each side (cut-off spring incomplete), four others each with planished body (surface rust, one pitted), three others each with plain copper body (some wear and denting, one nozzle and three cut-off springs missing), one with leather-covered body (in poor condition), and fifteen others variously embossed with sporting scenes, game birds, shells, reeding and foliage (some damage and parts missing); the second comprising four each with bag-shaped leather body and ring for suspension (some wear and damage), one tooled on each side with a sportsman and his gun dogs in a landscape, and four others each with circular leather body (three with some wear), and each with shot-measure with steel retaining-clip; ten powder-flasks for pistols (three nozzles missing), six variously embossed on both sides with an eagle, a shell and various designs of foliage including oak; together with two copper prototype powder-flask halves, one cast with a coastal shooting scene amid foliage, the other with a South American on horseback in a landscape framed by foliage, now mounted on a copper printing plate, a Balkan cartridge-box (palaskes), the front cast with figures in a landscape, and four other items (50)
The first 23 cm.