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Auction 125  24-27 Nov 2020
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Lot 4298

Estimate: 380 AUD
Price realized: 270 AUD
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POWDER FLASK, c1800, Percy Tenantry Volunteers' horn powder flask with brass cover at wide end and this engraved with the recumbent crescent moon mark of Hugh Percy, the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, with brass spout, this marked 'G/24', and with suspension loop at each end (approx size 7x33cm). Nearly very fine.

The Percy Tenantry Volunteers was raised by the 2nd Duke of Northumberland in 1798 from his estates in Northumberland and Tyneside and consisted of two Divisions of the Armed Association of the Percy Tenantry Infantry, the Northern of 4 Companies and the Southern of 8 Companies and a Percy Tenantry Volunteer Cavalry of 5 Troops.
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