Wheel-Lock All Steel Combined Priming Flask and Key c 1620

Wheel-Lock All Steel Combined Priming Flask and Key c 1620 of this type were intended for cavalry use. Further examples, similar to this one are preserved in a number of German historical armoury collections. Others of the same type are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the von Kienbusch Collection in The Philadelphia Museum of Art and in the Musee de l’Armee, Paris overall height 13cm the width of the body at the widest point 8.5cm