Leather Drinking Bottle - Costrel

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$13.00
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IMPORTANT This item is for hire only and requires a refundable deposit. This deposit will be payable before collection or dispatch & will be refunded once the item is returned to our warehouse and inspected.

NOTE: All base prices are per week (the minimum hire period), it is from the time it leaves our warehouse until the time it is returned.


Leather drinking vessels (costrel) and water carriers have been in use since Neolithic times, but it was during the medieval and later Tudor periods that they became particularly popular.

DOES NOT HOLD WATER due to hole, prop item only.

Size
Wooden stopper: 8cm x 2.5cm
Bottle: 27cm x 14cm

Weight: 0.3kg

The colour of the leather on this bottle may vary from the browns that are pictured.

Greg
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Functional but could be presented better This piece is a great functional piece of kit at a fairly reasonable price,where I and those who I showed it to felt it could improve however was in some of presentation of it,the overall feeling of at least the one I recieved was pretty rough

The piece i recieved had for some reason been painted over with a fairly mucky brown paint and the holes through which the string goes were also a bit rough,some of the leather on one side also had some slight scarring and bits gouged out (possibly from transit?)

This being said we've decided to glue a nice layer of material and paint it to pretty it up a bit and it remains a functional and good accessory for re-enactment
Devilman
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LeatherSkin Love this piece, as pretty as the picture, in fact I'm fairly sure I now own the picture you're looking at, really authentic looking, goes well with my other Viking age gear.

Note from MFC: They must just look similar, which given the process is highly possible.