Description:
"Hobart Spencer," of East Haddam, Connecticut. Hobart Spencer (1742-1806) served as a private under his father, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Spencer, during the 1759 and 1760 campaigns. The Spencer horn has typical Lake George School calligraphy, with thick-and-thin copperplate letters and shaded accents. The formations of soldiers are about on a par with formations carved by Jacob Gay in this period. One soldier at the end of the line is twice as large as the others indicating a particular person or emphasizing the practice of placing the tallest soldier at the rear. Another exceedingly rare vignette illustrates a group of mounted troopers with their pistols drawn & held in firing position. The rest of the decoration consists of a competently drawn ship & fish.

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