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Lot 254

A Rare English Silver-Mounted Powder-Flask For Flintlock Sporting Guns
Second Half Of The 18th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Silver-Mounted Powder-Flask For Flintlock Sporting Guns
Second Half Of The 18th Century

With bag-shaped body of mottled horn at the front and of flattened lanthorn with bevelled edge at the back, encircled by a reeded silver strap mount secured by two ring-headed screws on both sides each carrying a ring for suspension, reeded top mount, and threaded tapering turned nozzle with sprung cut-off lever (spring replaced)
16 cm.

Footnotes

For a related flask see W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790..., 1975, p. 52, pl. 205 (right)

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