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An incised American powder horn dated 1755 image 1
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Lot 5373

An incised American powder horn dated 1755
The Daniel Kinne horn

8 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$11,115 inc. premium

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An incised American powder horn dated 1755
The Daniel Kinne horn

The 17 inch curved and tapered horn with 4 1/2 inch single-ring spout of round section. Body finely inscribed Daniel/ kinne: Deakon (sic)/in ye Church At/ Partridgefield/ His horn charlston Sept. Ye 1775/1775 on bunkor(sic)/ hill June Ye/17 was The Fight and decorated with naively rendered motifs including a mermaid with a comb in hand, two tree forms, and two geese in flight. Flat wooden plug secured by two wooden pegs and long wire staple extending across plug.
Condition: Excellent. Soft yellow patina. Showing scattered minor blemishes.
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Footnotes

Note: Daniel Kinne (or Kinney), of Partridgeville (now Peru), Massachusetts, enlisted on May 5, 1775 in Captain Nathan Watkin's Company (Berkshire County), of Colonel John Patterson's Regiment, later known as the 1st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. His enlistment was for three months and three days. After mustering the regiment marched to the defense of Boston and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Later in the war Kinne served in two other Berkshire County regiments, Colonel John Simond's regiment and Colonel Asa Bane's regiment.
see pages 303-04 of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol. 9, Boston, 1902.

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