THE POWDER FLASK BOOK.
RILING, RAY.
Price: $195.00
Place Published: NEW YORK
Publisher: Bonanza Books
Date Published: 1953
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEAR FINE in a VERY GOOD DUSTJACKET
Book Id: 62779
Description
Actually four-books-in-one: A History of the Flask; A Textbook; A Picture Book of Flasks and Rare Arms; and a Book of Flask Values. Not only about flasks, but shot pouches, cappers, chargers, measures, flask patent drawings from Europe and America, exactly how to buy and sell flasks, and h ow to photograph, record and display a collection. "Treating of the history and use of the flask as a principal accessory to the firearm, from its inception, through the ages, until the popular acceptance of the metallic cartridge, and giving emphasis to the powder flasks of the nineteenth century, noting their significance and values for shooters and collectors of antique arms and flasks." With an introductory chapter by Harold L. Peterson, Chief, Historical Investigations Branch, National Park Service. Book is bright gray cloth covered boards with black lettering. Light sunning and minor edgewear to spinecaps of dustjacket only. Lovely copy of this scarce and exhaustively-researched book.