A Very Rare White-Metal 'Courtship' Powder-Flask For Percussion Sporting Guns, By James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, Mid-19th Century

With bag-shaped body of copper electrotype coated in silver, made in two halves and decorated in relief over the front with a country sportsman and young woman both in medieval costume and with his gun dog scratching his ear at their feet, framed in branches of oak involving a wolf's mask and hanging game, and surmounted by a stag's head beneath a border of crossed branches, the latter inhabited by a pair of love birds between owls, the back en suite and involving a procession of children with two dogs leading the way, the threaded top stamped with maker's details and 'Quick Loading Fireproof', adjustable nozzle graduated from 2 to 2¾ Drams, sprung cut-off lever, four suspension rings (one replaced), and retaining most of its silvering (some minor wear)
18 cm. high

For another example referred to as the 'Courtship' flask see Ray Riling, The Powder Flask Book, 1953, p. 301, fig. 519