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Powder tester. A small pistol like device with a wooden handle and a brass and steel mechanism on the end which includes a brass wheel marked with the numbers one to ten.
Powder tester, strength marks on gauge.
Inscription: strength marks on gauge
Inscription: strength marks on gauge
Powder horn. Made of a flattened horn, cream coloured grading into dark brown at the top. Decorated with incised knotwork circles and bands, two unicorns and three horse heads beneath the letters M, A, F, a pentagram in a circle, a thistle and a crude profile of a man wearing a hat.
Powder horn, flattened, to carry gunpowder for a pistol or dag. Decorated with a border and large filled circle of ropelike interlace, geometric metopes, thistles, a stylized head and stylized animals, possibly unicorns, with the letters 'M', 'A' and…
Powder Flask
Powder flask, made of black horn with a cigar-shaped body and with two sizes of powder measure, one at each end (probably to measure the powder required for pistol, shooting gun and large bore gun). Used by the Reverend Alexander John Forsyth who…
Powder Flask
Leather-covered powder flask, pear-like shape with built-in closure.