Love on the second glimpse

[Akanthus]

Originally Posted by Raf

What a lovely thing. Reminds me of seventeenth century priming flasks that incorporate a wheelock spanner. The construction seems unusual in that it looks like two slices of horn have been riveted together. Maybe you could confirm this is correct.

Yes,i think you are right.It seems to be a bent bigger piece for the corpus and a smaller for the back.Both riveted together.