Powder Horns

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Description:

One natural steer powder horn with a sawtooth collar and an affixed wooden charger. At the center is carved a large British Coat-Of-Arms with a horse on the right and George III's head (MARKED "G III") atop a lion's body on the left. The motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom (outside Scotland), "Dieu et mon droit", meaning "God and my right", is etched in a riband along the bottom of the badge. Nearly all of the remaining available space on the horn face is carved with a map of New York including markings in all capital letters of, "Ft. Edward", "Hendrick", Saratoga", "German Flats", "Still Water", "Half Moon", and "Ft. Hunter". The Hudson River is depicted and marked as such and the New York landscape is carved along the base.