Silver Powder Flask

Details

Date

1837

Author / Artist

Charles Rawlings & William Summers, London

Dimensions

8oz and 20cm

Material

Silver

Catalogue number

HBT.54

Current location

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Silver powder flask engraved on one side with two men in top hats with shotguns and on the other with commemorative description inscription to the Marquess: “This powder flask and shot belt were presented to the Marquess of Chandos in kind remembrance of a pleasant shooting excursion to the moors of Auchlyne in Perthshire in August 1837 by his obliged friends J.W.Chase of Cosgrove, T.B.Rose of Haddenham, J.Hoare of Wendover, and J.Bailey of Shenley”. (MB ref HB14PF01)