FRENCH POWDER FLASK

[Powder Flask Collector]

Hello friends of well smelling smoke.
I would like to present my latest aquisition.

Yes: it's a powder flask again. Not in brand new condition, but with the signs of long use and a good example of how people used to repair things instead of throwing them away.
The sheet brass flask body is intact and the soldering seams are closed. But the flask head was replaced many years ago by a simple head made of sheet metal (steel or sheet iron). And it doesn't look like the work of an expert. Somehow botched!
The flask body has typical french style features. Parforce hunting horn, hunting bag, powder flask, a dead bird, head of a wild boar, pig spears and large hunting knives.

Shown in the Riling under number 599. In the Marquiset, similar powder flasks can be seen under "sujet compose".

 

[hanshi]

Being a family forum photos of French....uh...flask.... Never mind.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

Sorry for having disappointed your hope for some HOT photos of french ....uh .... things ..... uh .... flasks. I think they are just COOL.

Indeed there is a huge variety of powder flasks and horns. Metal powder flasks made in Sheffield England have been fancy accessoires for sportsmen and hunters with muzzleloader guns. On the continent flat horns have been rather popular for a long time, for America homemade scrimshaw horns have been typical, but metal powder flasks have also been a sign that you could afford something "better". Since there were "these fancy metal powder flasks" with high tech patent heads on the market horns have been a sign for old fashioned and traditional (maybe not that wealthy) men.

Powder flasks from Sheffield have been so popular that they have been copied by craftsmen in france and in other european countrys but they were also manufactured in America. (By example: The American Flask & Cap Co.)

 

[Daryl Crawford]

Was the top repaired to merely receive a cap?

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

Was the top repaired to merely receive a cap?

The top was rather rusty. To me it doesn't look like the spout was made to receive a cap. I suspect that a simple plug was used.