Long before cell phones held all of our photos and stored calendars for meetings, there was a primitive, but equally as personal object: the carved powder horn. This weekend, an exhibit opens at the ...

A rare powder horn that belonged to an African American soldier killed in the Revolutionary War has gone on display in Philadelphia. The elaborately carved cow’s horn belonged to Gershom Prince, who ...

They were convenient and functional, the Colonial grunt’s answer to the European soldier’s manufactured cartridge box. But through years of encampments, marches and battles, some of these hollowed ...

Q: I live in Gainesville, Georgia. I have heard your program on the radio on a few visits with my brother who lives in Gainesville, Florida. He suggested that I send you some photos of a powder horn I ...

An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn has been returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Recently recovered by the FBI, the Nowlin Powder Horn ...

The most successful collectors aren’t trendy. They seek no approval except their own and keep quiet about what they’re buying to have the field all to themselves. Then, a decade or more later, when ...

This powder horn, which likely dates to sometime between 1757 and 1760, is inscribed with a map of the Hudson and Mohawk river valleys. Details visible on the horn include Lakes Champlain and Ontario, ...

The powder horn is adorned with ornate carvings that date from the French & Indian Wars The horn was a presentation piece by a British soldier to a member of the Iroquois Confederacy A soldier, John ...

Q: Here are the first of several pictures that I took of the powder horn we discussed on your radio show. It has been passed down in the family. As you can see, there is the date "1841" as well as ...

The decorative artistry and intricate carvings on this Revolutionary War powder horn aren’t the only things that make it special. The horn was owned by African-American soldier Gershom Prince and ...

Editor's note: This is story #90 in a Monday through Saturday series on 100 interesting artifacts found at Dover's Woodman Museum, in celebration of its 100th season ...