Powder Flasks Age? - SOLVED

[BuckleBoy]

Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

Hello All,

Yesterday I found this crumpled up piece of brass that turned out to be half of a powder flask after some careful cleaning and straightening. Can anyone give me any information on the piece's age? We found items at the house site ranging from flat buttons, pewter spoon fragments, a minieball, and a CW Eagle Button to wheat pennies and decorative brass from the Teens and Twenties.




Thank you in advance,


Buckleboy

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

http://www.arms2armor.com/Flasks/flask9.htm

I think I found your flask at the above link (it is protected and I can't swipe the image - but it looks bang on). That theme is called a "hanging game" or "dead game" pattern and was fairly common (Not used by Colt or Remington but there were a LOT of other flask providers).

Unmarked and therefore hard to date, but the style is 1850 to 1870 +/-

Nice find.

Here's another similar design.

PS - HA! Got the original image from the first site - your flask. ;-)

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

http://www.arms2armor.com/Flasks/flask9.htm

I think I found your flask at the above link (it is protected and I can't swipe the image - but it looks bang on). That theme is called a "hanging game" or "dead game" pattern and was fairly common (Not used by Colt or Remington but there were a LOT of other flask providers).

Unmarked and therefore hard to date, but the style is 1850 to 1870 +/-

Nice find.

Here's another similar design.

PS - HA! Got the original image from the first site - your flask. ;-)

AWESOME! That first site--that's it exactly! Thank you SO much! Now...if you were able to download the image, please share your secret with me. I'd like to have a photo of one un-dug to save.

Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

I pulled up the "locked" image on the website. Did a screen print and copied it to Word. Cropped the image and saved it as a jpeg file on my PC and the browsed it up to post it here.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

Got it. Thanks again!

-Buckleboy

 

[Felinepeachy]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

That's awesome BB, WTG!!!

 

[trikikiwi]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

Great work guys. Well done on both finds!!

Mike

 

[PBK]

Re: Powder Flask's Age?

Flasks of identical pattern were produced by the American Flask & Cap Co. of Waterbury, CT, c. 1840's-50's.

 

[Hill Billy]

Re: Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

Thats a cool find there Willy Too bad those pieces we're finding don't open up like that.

 

[birdman]

Re: Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

Great peice of history! Great ID!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

Thats a cool find there Willy Too bad those pieces we're finding don't open up like that.

No kidding! I double checked all of them anyhow just to make sure LOL. No luck.

Thank you all for the replies. I'm gonna let this one sink to the bottom now because it is "Solved."


Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

99.9% of the images will download. Of course I'm using a Mac.

All I have to do is "Control" and click at the same time and it opens a window with "Save Image" as an option. Should be some combination of mouse click and "control" or "option."

Daryl

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Re: Powder Flask's Age? - SOLVED

Congrats on the great find. Very nice!!!

DANGLANGLEY