Hunting Pouch by Jeff Cline

 

Photographs by Jan Riser.

Small Powder Horn by Bruce Horne

Photographs by Jan Riser.

Pouch by Ernie Boyd

Knife and Sheath by John Miller

 

I forged the blade from 1084, the handle is walnut with brass wraps, an iron guard and ferrule, and silver escutcheons.  The sheath is pine and sheet steel with a leather belt loop.  I put two opposing Osage orange springs in the sheath to firmly grab the blade.  Engraving on the pommel wrap mimics the holly inlays sometimes found on Federal era furniture.  The painting on the sheath is also inspired by Federal era painted furniture.  

Copy and photos supplied by John Miller.

Hunting Pouches by Gary Birch

 

Axes by Brian Barker

Photographs by Jan Riser.

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796

These pistols are part of a deluxe garniture of ivory-stocked hunting arms made for Empress Catherine the Great (reigned 1762–96), whose intial (E for Ekaterine) is on the escutcheons of the grips. The garniture, which originally consisted of these pistols, a fowling piece dated 1786 (National Museum, Warsaw), and a rifle (whereabouts unknown), was later given to her favorite, Prince Stanislas August Poniatowski (1732–1798), whom she backed as king of Poland (reigned 1763–95). Firearms with ivory stocks, generally out of fashion in western Europe by the eighteenth century, were in vogue in the ostentatious Russian court during the last quarter of the century.

Antique Knife and Sheath

 

Photographs by Jan Riser.

Rifle by Mark Silver

 

Photographs by Jan Riser.