[Lowell1775]

Wish I could figure out how to upload pictures here....but a quick link look is worth it to see a hand carved one of a kind powder horn. I visit Open Source all the time, but this powder horn post slipped by me until now.

I am not a rendezvouser, but when I travel, I always love seeing the personal carvings on horns in the war museums. Years ago there was one at Ticonderoga NY with lots of crosses and Bible quotes. Around the base plug was scribed something like...."As long as this horn has powder in it, I will bow to no king but God." The caption had a picture of the horn with the base plug pulled off....inscribed inside was a single word. Powder.

The old man had told his sons about it and when it was donated, the museum checked out the story.

That was a freeman who knew what freedom meant and a family that wanted his passion passed on.

[Rebelbase]

[mylife]

Why are there Palm trees on one side and map of Ohio/Pa on the other?

[mylife]

I grew up in the town where the first house in the Connecticut Western Reserve was built (It's still there)

I never saw any palm trees there ☺

[Inyo-Mono]

I too have a flintlock and several powder horns. Here's one of my French & Indian horns with a little Photoshop job on it

[elcid1970]

Scrimshawed powder horns are works of art. “Map” horns are my favorite.

The Collector’s Encyclopedia of the American Revolution contains photos of only those artifacts known to have existed in the Eighteenth Century. There are many powder horns shown and a common characteristic among them is the need to identify not only the owner, but his ownership.

For example, “JONATHAN FOSOM. HIS HORN.”

I did living history during the Bicentennial. Might try rendezvous’ing now in my later years.

[WVNan]

Oops, I now see that the picture was posted by someone else. Sorry bout that.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for this post.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Wall Street Journal for July 3, 2012, had a story (beginning on page 1) about a powder horn from 1776 which may have the earliest representation of the stars and stripes.