This is a newly designed product for 2017. Early 18th century painter Enoch Seeman was kind enough to leave yet another beautiful painting for me to appreciate depicting a sporting gentleman with a belt bag. This one is unique for us today as it is a double bag but incorporating the main flap as the second pocket. This is a common feature on many bag styles dating as far back as the medieval period.
There has been recent conversation about double bags in the 18th century and some have speculated that a bag in the 1744 painting of Sir Edward Hales by Mercier is a double as we commonly know them. I suggest that the bag in that painting is possibly the same general construction as the bag depicted here.
My version of the Seeman belt bag (I will call this the Seeman Double Waiste Bag as I adapted the design of another belt pouch from a different Seeman painting many years ago) pictured here is fully leather lined and edge bound. I lowered the button location in the foremost flap from that of the painting for better access to the flap pocket. The waistbelt has a die forged iron buckle and both fixed and running keepers. The strap end has been left unpunched and can be custom fitted to the new owner on site at the Contemporary Longrifle Show this coming weekend or prior to post shipment.
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