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Description: | Powder horn, flattened, to carry gunpowder for a pistol or dag Decorated with a border and large filled circle of ropelike interlace, geometric metopes, thistles, a stylized head and stylized animals, possibly unicorns, with the letters 'M', 'A' and 'F',
"Powder horn engraved '1691 The glorie of the honourable is to fear God' which is the motto of the Saltoun family."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"A powder horn was part of the everyday equipment carried by a Highland fighting man in the 17th century to carry gunpowder for his pistols or dags. Ox horn was flattened and plugged with rivetted wood to make a container, given a metal spout and decorated with complex, incised interlace patterns, often circular and probably derived from earlier Celtic patterns. In the 17th century tinkers made powder horns,and other horn implements. This powder horn is decorated with a border and large filled circle of rope-like interlace, geometric metopes, thistles, a stylized head and stylized animals, possibly unicorns. It is inscribed with the initials 'M. A. F', the coat of arms of the Saltoun family and 'The glorie of the honourable is to fear God'. The circle with the star pattern on the reverse is an eternity cross, found in churches and on other objects over a long period of history."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Davidson, George | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1691-1691 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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