POWDER HORN WITH MILITARY DECORATIONS
Carved powder horn, approx. 8" x 2", with a domed wood plug attached by iron pins at the wide end, topped with a brass button that would have once secured a leather lanyard. The surface of the horn near the spout is shaved down and decorated with a stippled pattern intersected by lines carved in a grid pattern and, further down, intersecting diamonds. The remainder of the horn retains its natural surface, apart from a 1/2"-wide strip running from the base to the carvings near the spout. The natural surface is carved with a variety of figures and images, including a full-length depiction of a man wearing a bicorn hat in profile standing before a tent, holding a rifle, as well as a cat, a row of houses, and a variety of complex and attractive geometric and floral designs. The horn shows some dark staining where the iron pins attach the wood plug, else very good.