Product Details
A SCARCE COMPLETE NAVAL COPPER POWDER MAGAZINE SIGNED 'WALKER PATENTEE',
early type with flush dove-tailed vertical seam, top and bottom copper bands and copper folding 'D'-ring handle circa 1820, approximately 10 1/2in. in diameter with applied tinned central hatch-rim covered with a lift-off copper hatch signed 'WALKER PATENTEE', the interior containing a radius of seven blackened and specially shaped, curved tins arranged around a central cylindrical blackened tin, all with brass caps, the central hatch aperture sealed with a copper plate with small ringed handle and a further turned mahogany cap numbered '149' with felt edging (small losses to felt, tins re-blackened)
Other Notes: A label accompanying the lot states that this tin came from 'Ballintore Castle by Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland'. This probably refers to the Victorian Shooting Lodge 'Balintore Castle'.
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Estimate £1,250-1,500