Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

An iron sword belt hook, of cossack type, triangular belt plate with scalloped border and pierced decoration, long upright hook with bud terminal and interrupted by a slotted square-section detail; together with a flint knapping hammer of similar style, slim crescent-shaped head, two-stage handle pierced with slots and flared chisel-like terminal, linked by two loose rings to an iron spike, Turkish or West/Central Asian; also with a set of eight Turkish gunpowder cartridges, wooden, with turned tops and elegantly tapering spouts, fabric stoppers retained by leather straps, in a leather pouch with eight fitted compartments; and a pomegranate shaped powder flask, embossed leather over wood, iron spout with sliding wooden shutter, associated iron belt loop. [4]