18th Century Material Culture

American Powder Horns

1760 - 1769

1760 - 1769

Powder Horn Carried by Richardson Minor

Richardson Minors Horn - Datd at Le Galatte - Aug 20 1760
(Historic Deerfield - William Guthman Collection)

Powder Horn Carried by William Elmslie

Depicting a Map Route from New York to Lisle au Galot, Near Montreal c. 1760
(New York Historical Society)

Powder Horn Carried by John Mills

John Mills - his horn - Made at Crown Point November 4, 1760
(Historic Deerfield - William H. Guthman Collection)

Powder Horn Carried by Thomas Kem III

Thoma Kem III Crown Point 1760
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
c. 1760
(Illinois State Museum)

Powder Horn Carried by Patrick Smith of New York

Patrick Smith His Horn 1760
(Doyles New York)

Powder Horn Carried by Patrick Smith of New York

Patrick Smith His Horn 1760
(Doyles New York)

Powder Horn Carried by Roman Wetmore Who Served in the 1st Connecticut Regiment
Carved by Mementos Mori August 6, 1760
(Bonhams)

Powder Horn Carried by Hugh Maclein of New York

c. 1760
(Freeman Auctions)

Powder Horn with Views of Saint Paul's Church and Fort Solom
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn with Views of Saint Paul's Church and Fort Solom
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn with Views of Saint Paul's Church and Fort Solom
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn with Views of Saint Paul's Church and Fort Solom
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Carried by Amos Powers with Views of Ticonderoga, New York
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Carried by Amos Powers with Views of Ticonderoga, New York
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Carried by Amos Powers with Views of Ticonderoga, New York
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Carried by Amos Powers with Views of Ticonderoga, New York
1760
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with Scenes of New York

c. 1760
(Skinner)

Powder Horn Depicting Rome, New York, and Fort Stanwix

1761
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Depicting Rome, New York, and Fort Stanwix

1761
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Depicting Rome, New York, and Fort Stanwix

1761
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Depicting Rome, New York, and Fort Stanwix

1761
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Depicting Rome, New York, and Fort Stanwix

1761
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Carried by Private Joseph Loomis, Lymans 1st Connecticut Regiment, Winsor, Connecticut 1758
Depiction of Crown Point 1761
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn Carried by Private Joseph Loomis, Lymans 1st Connecticut Regiment, Winsor, Connecticut 1758
Depiction of Crown Point 1761
(Cowans Auctions)

Massachusetts Powder Horn

"JACOB - DVNBAR - HIS HORN - HINGHAM - APRIL 9 1761."
(Cowans Auctions)

Massachusetts Powder Horn

"JACOB - DVNBAR - HIS HORN - HINGHAM - APRIL 9 1761."
(Cowans Auctions)

Massachusetts Powder Horn

"JACOB - DVNBAR - HIS HORN - HINGHAM - APRIL 9 1761."
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
HENRY TURNER - His HoRN - March, 1761
(Historic Deerfield - William Guthman Collection)

Powder Horn of Jonathan Moony

"IONaThaN MOONY 1762,"
(Skinner)

Powder Horn of Jonathan Moony

"IONaThaN MOONY 1762,"
(Skinner)

Powder Horn of Amos Chaee of Woodstock, Connecticut

April 8, 1762
(Fort Ticonderoga)

Powder Horn of Amos Chaee of Woodstock, Connecticut

April 8, 1762
(Fort Ticonderoga)

Powder Horn of Stephen Dyar

"MARCH ye A 1762 CROWN POINT STEPHEN DYAR"
(Skinner)

Powder Horn Attributed to Jonathan Sarrazin, Charleston , South Carolina

c. 1762 - 1764
(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)

New England Powder Horn of Robert Boyd

1763
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
2nd Half 18th Century
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
2nd Half 18th Century
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
Owned by Richard Skidmore of Salem, Massachusetts 1764
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by British Forces in 1762.
c. 1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by British Forces in 1762.
c. 1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by British Forces in 1762.
c. 1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by British Forces in 1762.
c. 1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by the British Forces in 1762
1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn Engraved with a View of Havana, Cuba, Captured by the British Forces in 1762
1765
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn
Simeon Stearns and John Stearns 1766
(Cowans Auction House)

Powder Horn
WILLIAM EVANS 1767
(Skinner)

Powder Horn of Peter Robinson

Depicting Havana, Cuba 1767
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Powder Horn
c. 1760
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
c. 1760
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn
c. 1760
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn of Quebec

Initialed H H E
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn of Quebec

Initialed H H E
(Cowans Auctions)

Powder Horn with British Coat of Arms

Date Uncertain
(Cowans Auctions)

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