A Rare 18thC English Tavern Leather Ale Vessel c.1760 sub-Natural History Tripoli – raiding towns and

Tripoli – raiding towns and seizing merchant ships primarily across the Mediterranean

The lid is slightly askew

being a reference to the campaign for the abolition of slavery

surviving from the last quarter of the eighteenth century

The rest of the skeleton is in good condition

A Rare 18thC English Tavern Leather Ale Vessel c.1760 sub-Natural History Tripoli – raiding towns andOrigin: English Period: George II III Provenance: Aspley House, Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire, England Date: c. 1760 Diameter: 10. 5 at spout Height: 6 The very scarce and interesting burnished leather ale vessel of studded near circular form with wooden base, the seam forming a pouring spout, and formerly of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire, England. Condition is fine, with the leather having taken on a beautiful honest patina, with the