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Chuckmuck, leather with separate tinder pouch.

Chuckmuck, leather with copper and iron decorations.

Chuckmuck, with tinder horn and carrying leather straps.

Chuckmuck, leather, plain design

Chuckmuck, small without decorations

Chuckmuck (length 4 1/10 ins) of very thick tanned leather; on flap

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/8 ins) of unusual type; of stamped leather

Chuckmuck with brass mounts

Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins) with brass mounts on flap; on each corner

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/4 ins) of elongated kidney-shape

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/8 ins); small

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/4 ins); five large brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/2 ins); thin plate of silver

Chuckmuck (length 3 3/4 ins)

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/4 ins); very poor and small

Chuckmuck

Chuckmuck (length 3 7/8 ins); large silver mounts on both back and front

Chuckmuck (length 3 5/8 ins); silver mounts on both front and back

Chuckmuck (length 3 1/4 ins); silver mounts on both front and back

Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/4 ins); front

chuckmuck (length 5 1/4 ins); a plain example; a large plate

Chuckmuck (length 4 ins); with silver mounts; narrow edging

Chuckmuck with brass fittings

Mechang pouch (chuckmuck), Tibet

Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck of very unusual type

Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck (length 2 1/4 ins); small

Chuckmuck (length 2 5/8 ins); small and rudely made

Chuckmuck (length 2 1/2 ins); small and poor

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/8 ins); very small and plain; on flap

Chuckmuck (length 5 ins); steel mounts on flap engraved with poor designs of flowers and foliage

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/8 ins); small

Chuckmuck (length 2 4/10 ins); small

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins)

Chuckmuck (length 2 4/10 ins); poor and of small size

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins); on flap

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/4 ins); brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck (length 2 3/4 ins); heavy brass mounts on both front and back

chuckmuck (length 3 1/4 ins); three brass mounts

Chuckmuck with large brass boss on

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins); a handsome example

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins); an elegant example

Chuckmuck, small with brass decorations.

Chuckmuck, small with brass decorations.

Chuckmuck (length 3 1/3 ins); very similar to no. 967, but larger; similar brass mounts on flap and inscription on front of steel; on top, a small loose ring within the square suspension-ring. China.

Chuckmuck (length 3 1/3 ins); very similar to no. 967

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins) of deeply-corrugated leather; three brass mounts on flap; two, on corners, represent bats, very highly conventionalized; one, in centre, a decorative flourish; maker's mark, Wang (king or prince) on front of steel.

Chuckmuck (length 4 3/4 ins) of deeply-corrugated leather

Chuckmuck (length 4 ins) of deeply-corrugated leather; brass mounts on flap consist of various round bosses (mostly missing); two fishes, and a central design, apparently a joss-house or shrine, all engraved and closely resembling those on no. 960 above; suspension-ring of thin brass wire; on front of steel, an inscription (perhaps yung, long-enduring, as on no. 976).

Chuckmuck (length 4 ins) of deeply-corrugated leather

Chuckmuck (length 5 7/8 ins); a large and handsome example, with various silver mounts, elegantly engraved with conventional designs of flowers and foliage, and various bosses in high relief, their tops engraved; in centre of flap, a brass boss set with a large round stud of red coral; the round loose swivelled suspension-ring at top is of unusual type; contains flint (a fragment of quartz) and tinder.

Chuckmuck (length 5 7/8 ins); a large and handsome example

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/10 ins); an unusual example, covered both back and front by brass plates, bearing designs in pierced openwork, allowing thin sheets of talc (now largely broken away) to be seen below; design on flap represents, within a border engraved with a design of dots and angles, two large long-tailed pack-horses, both laden, facing one another; design on back chiefly dots and zig-zag lines; very wide suspension-ring of steel at top; attached thereto, by a cord of catgut, a brass horse-bell; much tinder remains inside.

Chuckmuck (length 5 1/10 ins); an unusual example