Description: | Chuckmuck (length 5 1/4 ins); an unusual example, of thin red untanned leather, with very profuse decoration in form of mounts, those on front in silver, those on back in brass; on flap, two corner-plates representing each a peacock, in high relief, sitting on nest, in silver, with gilded background; in centre, a large grotesque face in high relief between two small bosses, each set with a small turquoise, one blue, the other green; on front of steel, a design, in silver, inlaid, resembling "hooks and eyes", many times repeated and perhaps intended to represent flames. |