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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