Description:
Probably owned by the Reuben Alexander who was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1740. During the French & Indian War campaigns of 1759-60, he enlisted in Captain Salah Barnard's company and fought in the war. Sometime in the late 1760s or early 1770s, he moved just over the border to Winchester, New Hampshire. During the American Revolution, he was a militia captain in Winchester and later colonel. He was a justice of the peace for Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and died in 1811. Reuben Alexander's Powder Horn, c. 1755, horn carved with foliate designs and flourishes, animals, fish, a buck, horse, what looks to be a Native American figure, and marked "1755 AUGeST 20/RuBEN ALEXANDER: 1755," a pine plug chip carved with designs, and remnants of 19th-century newspaper, the printed words "ALESMAN/ has own" and "SPE/dealers." can be made out, around the spout where it had a metal spout added at some point, the metal spout does not survive. Condition: Horn is dark in color but the carving is very visible, the spout has a small piece missing and looks to have been covered with a metal spout glued on with some newsprint in the 19th century, but in overall very good condition. There is a one inch long crack extending from the pine plug inward. The crack does not appear dirty and may have happened more recently.
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