I was wondering if anybody had some good sources for reproduction Medieval pewter (other than buckles and badges - we have some good sources for those)? All I can ever find on the net is pseudo Renn - faire and neo gothic junk. I'm really looking for one of those little footed pewter flasks - I think Gerry Embleton is sitting next to one in the final pages of "The Medieval Soldier".
Tough to find something for carrying liquids in the field appropriate for a mounted Man at Arms. I don't think that a pottery costrel or a gourd is suited to the portrayal. I'm not sure about a leather ware one.

might I ask portrayals of who, and why not?

and who would leather be appropriate for?

You missed what I wrote - I said pottery costrels were probably inappropriate for a monted Man at Arms/Gentleman. They are perfectly appropriate for 90 % of 15th c. portrayals. I'm looking for something a gentleman would carry, or probably more appropriately, be carried by the gentlemans valet for him - "Jeeves, where is my flask man?"

Maybe a leather one, but good ones cost as much as a pewter one will, I wager.

Sorry! I misread.

then he continues...
"Maybe a leather one, but good ones cost as much as a pewter one will, I wager. "

I've seen SCA folks sell them for about $100, but they insist on coating the insides with food grade epoxy (*sigh*.....). But they dont seem that hard to make! It involves sewing them up, wetting the leather, tamping them full of sand to get them into that little barrel shape, emptying the sand (that seems to be the hardest part), then coating them with beeswax or brewers pitch if you want to.

If you have any documentation for the leather bottle shapes, that's even easier...

dont dispair!
--AM