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Lot 207
A Rare American Colonial Cowhorn Powder-Horn Probably Relating To The French And Indian WarsCirca 1760
24 April 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£2,000 - £3,000
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Circa 1760
Circa 1760
Incised with scrimshaw work retaining traces of red pigment and depicting the Hanovarian royal arms, a sun-in-splendour and vacant banner above, a martial trophy between field guns and banners below, and elsewhere with a figure firing at a running stag, his dog at his feet, and a man-in-the-moon in a starry sky, tapering nozzle of octagonal section, and drawn-out at the base (some damage, base-plug missing) to form a lip pierced with three holes for suspension
31 cm.
31 cm.




