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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 75758, member: 25&quot;]While packing up the coconut for going to the auction, I took a better look at it and found several details that make it seem a bit more hopeful for a good result. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know how I missed it, but the mouth of the flask has a beast face above the opening.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19523[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to tell what if anything it is suppoed to be. </p><p><br /></p><p>One side has an oval cartouche with a female seated figure waving a flag, hat or branches. Vaugely like the Britannia figure.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]19524[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Costume looks a bit 18th C.to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other side there is a crowned fleur de lys, or possibly PoW feathers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19525[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Plants on the other sides with two similar &#039;plaques&#039; with hole like marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19526[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19527[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and the general view from when I first look at it and missed most of the details. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19528[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Still looking for opinions as to date and interpretation of the newly revealed details.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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