Horn, Powder
- Object Name:
- Horn, Powder
- Object ID:
- 1965.532.05
- Creator:
- Walker, Timothy
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1761
- Description:
- Powder Horn. Dark golden horn, narrowest third gray-brown. Raised double ring near tip end. Wooden plug missing. Body of horn carved with light fine line drawings of animals, mermaid, and leafage scrolls. Inscribed "Timothy Walker. March 11, 1761"; beneath this in scrolled cartouche, "Rumford". Reading in reverse direction on either side of mermaid: "Am ..." "made". Wide end carved with teeth and plugged with inset wooden plug. Teeth at narrow end of carved portion. Carrying chain.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Horn - Dimensions:
- H-3.5 W-7 L-13.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Timothy Walker, b.1737, son of Rev. Timothy Walker, first minister of the First Church in Concord, NH. Graduated from Harvard in 1756. Filled several municipal offices. Col. of His Majesty's regiment of Province. Embraced the patriot cause and became one of the leading men in the state. One of the Committee of Safety and Commander of a Company of Minute Men. Subsequently paymaster of the State Forces. Served under John Sullivan in 1779. Member of the convention that framed the state constitution in 1784. For several years afterward a member of the NH legislature, and for a long period Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He died in 1822.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Powder horns, Mermaids, Animals
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