Small Powder Horn Dated 1801

The date 1801 is clearly hand-etched near the base plug. The crude, double-lined style of the numbers is classic for period folk art, where a user would use a pocket knife to scratch their mark into the horn.

This horn has a History falling into the post-Revolutionary War, early Federal period. During this time, powder horns were transitioning from essential military equipment to everyday tools used by frontiersmen, farmers, and hunters for sustenance and local militia duty. Asking $85 shipped