Long before cell phones held all of our photos and stored calendars for meetings, there was a primitive, but equally as personal object: the carved powder horn. This weekend, an exhibit opens at the ...
On Monday's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," a Las Vegas man brought in a beautiful artifact straight off the battlefields of the Revolutionary War. "Engraved powder horns are one of the earliest forms ...
A rare powder horn that belonged to an African American soldier killed in the Revolutionary War has gone on display in Philadelphia. The elaborately carved cow’s horn belonged to Gershom Prince, who ...
The powder horn is adorned with ornate carvings that date from the French & Indian Wars The horn was a presentation piece by a British soldier to a member of the Iroquois Confederacy A soldier, John ...
An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn has been returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Recently recovered by the FBI, the Nowlin Powder Horn ...
A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...
TWO INTRIGUING objects displayed together in a second-floor gallery at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester may seem out of place, at least at first glance. These objects were made from the horns ...
As this column is published, the Northeast is waiting for the moon to pass between the earth and sun – plunging us into darkness during the day. In olden times, early mankind would worry that the ...
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