Lot 480

A SCOTTISH POWDER HORN
LATE 17TH CENTURY




Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 17 August 2016 from 12:00 BST
£1,125
Description
decorated with a crown above a roundel below with initials AET + DC, above a fine flower head roundel with the date 1696, the reverse side with similar engraving with a date 1765 and a cross with intertwined S on the vertical arm and surmounted with a small coronet, the edges decorated with semi circles and punched dots, plain brass base cover, front suspension ring on a shaped brass collar (split), the nozzle (small damage) with cut linear lines to the spring cut off
Dimensions
38.1cm long, 10.16cm wide at base
Footnote
Provenance:
Midmar Castle Collection, Lyon & Turnbull. 21st March 2010, lot 192



