WOODEN POWDER FLASK for COMMENT and ID

[kahnjar1]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

More below...Some conjecture suggests that these are Ottoman or Moroccan but they could easily be both ...spoils of war perhaps... I can imagine the flask being plain in the hands of the original Ottoman owner but later hand carved by the new Moroccan owners in the typical decorative style of wood carving of North African form.

The plain flask below said to be Ottoman whilst the carved Flask described as Moroccan.

Salaams Ibrahiim,
Do you know how these flasks were carried? The "slot" suggests a belt but I would have thought that would restrict ease of use.......
Your small pic shows a cord, (maybe not original?) but if that is the correct way of suspending the flask then why is there not just a hole or a ring to take the cord?
Stu