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 ...

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 ...

A powder horn with scrimshaw decorations. The powder horn shaft is made from cow horn. On one side of the horn's base, there is an engraved illustration of a seated African American officer smoking a ...

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 ...

The most successful collectors aren’t trendy. They seek no approval except their own and keep quiet about what they’re buying to have the field all to themselves. Then, a decade or more later, when ...

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This missing powder horn has been returned to the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Museum. Museum curator Suzanne Flynt managed to put the powder horn on display in time for the anniversary of ...

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 ...

HOLLIS – Jim Hayden, a Revolutionary War re-enactor, will demonstrate powder horn engraving from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 20, at the Hollis Historical Society’s Wheeler House Museum, 20 Main St. Hayden ...

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