Earliest Arquebusier's and Musketeer's Trapezoidal Powder Flasks, ca. 1530-1590

Matchlock · 24th June 2012, 02:03 PM

Saxon trapezoidal powder flasks with leather pouch, 1560's, the iron mounts blued, and retaining their original leather suspension strings with wooden beads on the draw-strings;
please note the archaic form of the serpent-shaped vertical cut-off:

Castle Museum Schwerin, Germany (top) and Wallace Colln., London (center);

and a rare variant of drop-like shape: Castle Museum, Schwerin (bottom.

Proveance: The Saxon Royal Collections.

Schwerin items: author's photos.

Further samples of both types: author's collection.

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24th June 2012, 02:03 PM	#9
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Saxon trapezoidal powder flasks with leather pouch, 1560's, the iron mounts blued, and retaining their original leather suspension strings with wooden beads on the draw-strings; please note the archaic form of the serpent-shaped vertical cut-off: Castle Museum Schwerin, Germany (top) and Wallace Colln., London (center); and a rare variant of drop-like shape: Castle Museum, Schwerin (bottom. Proveance: The Saxon Royal Collections. Schwerin items: author's photos. Further samples of both types: author's collection. m Attached Images