April 19, 2024
1850's Powder Horn Pistol Pocket Size MaineFarmFind
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Antique handmade and hand carved small pistol or pocket powder horn. Maine , 1850, probably earlier. Guaranteed old and original; this is not a fake or reproduction. Actual weight 1/4 lbs. 6 1/2" long by 2 1/8" wide at the bottom end. Handmade from a carved steer horn with a pine wood bottom plug steel pinned in place and retaining it's original old dry surface. These small horns were used to carry a small reserve of gun powder to supply a pistol or, more often on a Maine farm, the brief late afternoon "walk around". As dusk settles, chores settle, supper beckons and t is a "few minutes left", I, too, "take the gun" and "walk around". Just down back of the pasture above the pines w they cross. Or down the road to the head when they "come down through" "now". This hunting is not done full equipment laden. One puts a few bullets in the gun and a few in the pocket. 150 years ago this horn went in the pocket. Then one "walks around" for about... a long twenty minutes... to get back before t is a "W were you?". Very good as found condition. T is nothing wrong with the horn at all. It had a strap wire in the end at one time but that is long gone. It spent most of it's hunting life in a jacket pocket. Now it displays quietly on a shelf or desk top. Absolutely untouched and as found. Right out of the farm house, it has appropriate surface
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