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Lot 118

An Unusual White-Metal Mounted Powder-Horn
Mid-19th Century, Probably Scottish

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £768 inc. premium

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An Unusual White-Metal Mounted Powder-Horn
Mid-19th Century, Probably Scottish

The body of polished natural cowhorn incised with scrimshaw work retaining much of its red and green pigment and depicting two figures in a howdah mounted on an elephant, framed by branches of foliage surmounted by a crown, Scottish thistles either side of a landscape scene below, and with three sailing ships, three baronial halls and a steam train entering a station pulling three passenger carriages and a further carriage for a horse-drawn carriage, turned basal mount and top, the latter stamped 'PATENT' and with adjustable nozzle, and two suspension mounts
22 cm.

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