Top Quality Patrons, Etched and Inlaid With Bone
... for officers of the Trabanten-Leibgarde (bodyguards) of the Electors of Saxony, ca. 1580.
As you may have noticed on one on the samples in my collection, all Saxon patrons open by a shift button on the underside while Nuremberg or Ausgburg productions open by a push button on the front.
Photos taken by the author in the collection of famous Burg Eltz.
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