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Maker(s):Spencer-Hitchcock carver (attributed)
Culture:American (w. 1757-1762)
Title:powder horn: Josiah Walker
Date Made:1757-1759
Type:Armament
Materials:horn, wood: pine; base metal: brass; black pigment
Place Made:United States; Hudson River or Lake Champlain Region
Measurements:overall: 3 3/8 in x 11 1/2 in; 8.5725 cm x 29.21 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2005.20.29
Credit Line:Historic Deerfield, The William H. Guthman Collection of American Engraved Powder Horns
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
"Lieut., Josiah Walker." Josiah Walker is listed as serving in the following campaigns: 1757, 1758, and 1759. This horn resembles the work of J.W. except that it lacks winged serifs. the thick -and-thin caligraphy is almost identical to the copperplate engraving on the Hobart Spencer and Ebenezer Hitchcock horns. There is a neatly executed abstract British coat-of-arms surrounded by a delicately scalloped border similar to that of J.W. And there is a neat scalloped edge decorated with dots and triangular devises of a familiar Lake George School type.

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