Scottish 18thC Black Powder Touch Hole Pick Sgian Dubh Shaped RARE

  
This is an antique Scottish 18-19th Century B Powder touch hole pick - pricker call it what you will. As you can see it is in the shape of a Scottish Sgian Dubh, the short business tool that fits down the sock of a Scottish soldier. It is made from nickel - brass like metal and wood and has an inner brass sheet. The pick - pricker folds out rather like a toothpick - surgeons fleam, lancet of the same period. The nickel metal has a really nice zig-zag engraved design of LEAVES & FLOWER at either side at the top.

With 5 rivets on each of the wood sections. The rivets on the metal parts are hardly visible and the maker has done a really fine job. The folding pick - pricker it is the same metal and again has fine zig-zag punched marks half way down it on both sides. Looking from the sides where you can see the inner brass sheet...

You would nearly say it has had another folding pick - pricker as well... But it only has 1 remaining now? Mind that does not bother me as my price has NOTHING to do with that website or that person. It is 3 inch long overall when the pick is in situ x 5/8ths inch wide x 1/4 inch deep at the top end.

It could also be a period TOOTHPICK as well in the same shape as the traditional Scottish Sgian Dubh. Scale is usually an English 1 penny coin which is 20mm in diameter which is just short of 7/8ths of an inch in diameter. In the title or description it means. Condition which may have scuffs, scratches and damage. We cannot and will not declare items below the sale value.

The item "Scottish 18thC Black Powder Touch Hole Pick Sgian Dubh Shaped RARE" is in sale since Monday, March 1, 2021. This item is in the category "Collectables\Militaria\Early Modern (1500-1800)".

The seller is "diggerlee" and is located in Yorkshire. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
• Country/ Organization: Great Britain
• Theme: Militaria
• Time Period: Early Modern (1500-1800)
• Type: black powder touch hole pick pricker
• Service: all flintlock pistol rifle use
• Era: 1500-1750