[FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. Powder horn featuring fine scrimshaw map of New York, identified to John Hosmer, likely made at Crown Point, 1759.
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$6,000 -
$8,000
Item was unsold
Lot Description
[FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. Powder horn featuring fine scrimshaw map of New York, identified to John Hosmer, likely made at Crown Point, 1759.
Approx. 14 1/2 in. lg. carved horn (some wear to surface; plug with heavier wear including punctures and a small area of loss). Horn features raised ring carved near spout, with scalloped ring carved in throat, and horn proper with scalloped edge.
Central cartouche reads, "Crown Point 1759 / John Hosmer His Horn." A map of northern New York winds around the horn proper, with illustrated forts, geographic features, and towns along the North (Hudson) and Mohawk Rivers including Albany, "Schenaktedy," Saratoga, Ticonderoga; Forts Ontario, Bull, Stanwix, Henry, Hunter, Miller, Edward; and Lakes Champlain, George, and Onyda. Also illustrated are a compass rose and a patriotic motif featuring a central drum flanked by cannons and surmounted by 8 fanned flags.
One John Hosmer (1712-1761) is listed in Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762 as a soldier serving in the 5th Company of the 3rd Regiment under Colonel Nathan Whiting. Additionally, his last will and testament appear in the Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. 17-19, 1753-1770. Dated 4 September 1755, the text of the will reads, in part, "I John Hosmer of Hartford...Connecticut in New England being in perfect health & of Sound Mind & memory, but being bound on an expedition to Crown point against the Enemy...do therefore make & ordain this to be my last Will & Testament..."
Property from the Estate of Robert Streett
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