Metals
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
- Archives
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” .
