Love on the second glimpse

[Raf]

What a lovely thing. Reminds me of seventeenth century priming flasks that incorporate a wheelock spanner. The construction seems unusual in that it looks like two slices of horn have been riveted together. Maybe you could confirm this is correct.

[Akanthus]

Originally Posted by Raf

What a lovely thing. Reminds me of seventeenth century priming flasks that incorporate a wheelock spanner. The construction seems unusual in that it looks like two slices of horn have been riveted together. Maybe you could confirm this is correct.

Yes,i think you are right.It seems to be a bent bigger piece for the corpus and a smaller for the back.Both riveted together.

[Dmitry]

I wonder why the text is split like it is. And what do you think is depicted under the stag? It appears to be a man-made structure.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Dmitry

... I wonder why the text is split like it is...

Maybe the engraver copied the inscription from another implement, split in context, and did not know Latin enough to recompose it.

Originally Posted by Dmitry

... And what do you think is depicted under the stag? It appears to be a man-made structure.

Actaeon himself ?


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[Raf]

I think Dmitry means the architectural looking structure below the image of the stag scratching his ear. Fences for shooting driven game ?

[Dmitry]

I was considering the same thing as suggested by Fernando - the text is split in two columns of approximately equal size, as it would be in the following, or similar scenarios: On the sides of a blade with a wide fuller; On the sides of a blade with rhomboid-cross section; On the sides of a hexagonal, or similar, gun barrel.

Raf is right. This is what I'm wondering about.

[Raf]

Deer hunting with nets.