AN INDIAN POWDER-FLASK, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY of turned wood covered with leather, the inner face stitched and fitted with a pair of loops for suspension, the outer with a central steel boss, four smaller bosses and numerous studs arranged in a radiating pattern (small losses), steel nozzle with sliding cut-off, and an early leather suspension band 25cm; 9 7/8in high A similar flask decorated with the arms of the East Indian Company is illustrated, A. C. Tirri 2003 p. 262, fig. 187E.