Description
The coarse powder for the charge that propels the bullet was carried in a large flask, and priming powder, in a smaller one. The leather was saturated with water so that it could be shaped on a mold.
Provenance
Londesborough; Londesborough Sale, Christie's, London, 1888, no. 114 (?); Clements [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 24; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
