An early powder flask.

[Matchlock]

This very early specimen, ca. 1540-50, preserved in the museum at the Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg) Nuremberg/Bavaria, is also covered with tooled leather and missing its carrying hook.
In all probability, it is one of the earliest of that group ever made and still has the touch of earliest trapezoid musketeers flasks of the 1530's but the brass top mount and staged, vase-like nozzle are dating criteria of the mid-16th c.

Please see also my thread:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...+powder+flasks

The strictly triangular shape of the flat body with straight edges, and the tooling with sparse, mostly conformable lines (geprägte Blindlinien), all account for its early date.

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