Lot 420
A MID-LATE VICTORIAN SILVER MOUNTED POWDER HORN
CRICHTON, EDINBURGH
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
the polished flattened cow horn with applied thistle and scroll cartouche, engraved with crest and motto of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, the wide terminal profusely decorated with embossed trailing thistles and set with paste to centre, the finial set formed as a stylised thistle with faceted amethyst, suspended from a double row fancy link chain
Footnote
Heraldry: The Crest of Hepburn
Crest: A horse argent furnished gules tied to a yew tree proper
Motto: Keep tryste
Note: It is believed that this powder flask was in the possession of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn (born 12th March 1852 died 17th May 1929), the 4th Baronet of Smeaton Hepburn in the County of Haddingdonshire. Sir Archibald was educated at Glenalmond and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was later admitted as a Barrister of Law at the Inner Temple in 1877 and served as a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant and Convenor for and of the County of Haddingdonshire.