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A Rare Egg Patent Powder-Flask For Sporting Guns
A Rare Egg Patent Powder-Flask For Sporting Guns By Durs Egg, No. 1, Pall Mall, No. 227, Circa 1816-32 The bag-shaped body with copper seam, both sides covered in leather tooled with bands of foliage at the top, brass top mount, angled nozzle signed in an oval and numbered at the base, and characteristic cut-off lever 21.5 cm. Footnotes: This flask probably incorporates Durs Egg's British Patent No. 3599 of 25 September 1812. For more information see Ian Ford & De Witt Bailey, British Powder Flasks 1700 To The Present Day..., 2023, pp. 179 and 180, figs. 5/14 to 5/19 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
A Rare Egg Patent Powder-Flask For Sporting Guns By Durs Egg, No. 1, Pall Mall, No. 227, Circa 1816-32 The bag-shaped body with copper seam, both sides covered in leather tooled with bands of foliage at the top, brass top mount, angled nozzle signed in an oval and numbered at the base, and characteristic cut-off lever 21.5 cm. Footnotes: This flask probably incorporates Durs Egg's British Patent No. 3599 of 25 September 1812. For more information see Ian Ford & De Witt Bailey, British Powder Flasks 1700 To The Present Day..., 2023, pp. 179 and 180, figs. 5/14 to 5/19 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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