Black Powder Flasks

[Tsalagidave]

I have a powder flasks that I like to carry in my impressions. I have an original zinc flask from the 1850s that I have carried in my pockets and has been a faithful friend for many years. I have both an original zinc and a repro of the copper variant for the American Flask and Cap Company pocket flask design. Both have been useful to my pocket revolvers or as a more portable loader for my navy six that will fit in my pocket or hunting bag. I really like the Colt repros the best. My 2nd gen Cold belt flask is japanned against corrosion and has outlasted a few of my guns. The early model Dragoon flask gets cool points for its bullet chamber that holds 7 x .451 rounds and measures out 25 grains. It is nice and shiny so I can't wait to break it in.

This is another one of my shameless pleas for people on the site to show off their gear.

-Dave

[Major 2]

I have this little pocket flask marked  G. & J.W. Hawksley ~ Sheffield.

My larger Colt Flask & my 3 horns ...went up in the Fire of my shop in 2011

[Mogorilla]

Here is mine.  Made it from the legbone of a beef.  (petsmart)   Capped with mesquite wood (small chunks from hardware store for smokers)

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Major 2,

This is the second time I have written this post ... sigh ... I hope it gets sent this time ... or at least waits 'til I am finished to delete itself ...

The smaller flask is just what I have been looking for .... with one exception ...all the smaller flasks are set up to be used in priming the frizzen of a flintlock .... not one is set up to be able to throw 35-40 grains of powder for a .44 Cal.

Nor are they set up to 'take' the 35-40 grain tubes that a larger revolver would have.

I would be interested in any solution that does not include a,) multiple loading to get the required amounts of powder, or b.) anything requiring a gun$mtih's service or re-drilling, then tapping that same  drilling to fit the larger bore and threads of loading tube ....

[Major 2]

Wadd

I responded to your email...as I said  Track of the Wolf had these ( now ot of stock )
But if you go to their site, on the second page I believe they have a small flask http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/69/2/FLASK-POCKET

and you can get the Spout, for the powder flask, 10-1mm thread, brass, throws 20 grains  Part Number: SP-020

they also have http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/69/3/FLASK-UNUM

[Jack Wagon]

I got my little Hawksley pocket flask to throw 15 gr. of 3F by adding a drilled out .357 case as a spout, just about right for my Patterson. JW

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

How about this flask I saw in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

My own pistol flask is entirely my own manufacture.  I started with a small black cow horn, heated and flattened it, made a base from a slice of moose antler. After cutting off the tip of the horn I drilled it out to fit the base of a .303 Brit case. I drilled out the centre of the .303 case base and tapped it with ordinary taps to fit the thread of a TRESO horn fitting.  I can use a TRESO valve fitting with measure spouts, or a wooden plug via the base of a .223 case threaded to fit the .303 case. It holds about 3 oz. BP.

[Tascosa Joe]

Sir Charles:

Oxford, England?  I have seen a flask similar to that in one of the old Mountain Man Sketchbooks, it my memory is correct.  It did not have the carving the one you picutured had.  The carving looks somewhat Arabic/North African or Indian.  I wish I could see the detail better.  It was very interesting.

T-Joe

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

My bad photography and an old 4 megapix camera.  I got way too much glare and too little detail. I had notes on the provenance but have lost them.  Beautiful carving.  Not an ordinary item, this was a piece of art. 

[Tascosa Joe]

Sir Charles:

I agree with you it is Art.

[JimBob]

Looks German in origin,like this one-

http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/D54901/a_german_stag_antler_and_iron_mounted_powder_flask_late_17th_century_d5490130h.jpg

[Tascosa Joe]

Jim Bob: That is a beautiful flask.