Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - CALIVERMAN's Powder Flasks and Their Leather Frogs, Nuremberg, ca. 1580-1620

Matchlock · 22nd June 2012, 01:41 PM

A caliverman's flask, German or Swiss, ca. 1600; the body of flattened, bleached and engraved cowhorn, the mounts of blackened iron, the opening ring of the top mount with an additional small iron device of unknown purpose attached by a chain;
the obverse engraved with a mythological hunting scene, the reverse engraved with characteristic concentric circles, the frog hook missing from the reverse (the small hole filled where it was attached by a threaded pin).

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22nd June 2012, 01:41 PM	#20
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	A caliverman's flask, German or Swiss, ca. 1600; the body of flattened, bleached and engraved cowhorn, the mounts of blackened iron, the opening ring of the top mount with an additional small iron device of unknown purpose attached by a chain; the obverse engraved with a mythological hunting scene, the reverse engraved with characteristic concentric circles, the frog hook missing from the reverse (the small hole filled where it was attached by a threaded pin). m Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 22nd June 2012 at 05:08 PM.