Lot 173
Connecticut Map Engraved Powder Horn by Hiel Hall (1736-1807), 2nd Cavalry, Jan. 1803

Lot 173 Details
Connecticut Map Engraved Powder Horn by Hiel Hall (1736-1807), 2nd Cavalry, Jan. 1803
with a detailed map of the Connecticut River Valley from Long Island Sound to the Massachusetts line, including town names, buildings and geographical features, native American settlements, a barquentine ship, a compass rose and titled and dated banner, on a gut cord
length 12 in — 30.5 cm
Estimate $2,000-$3,000
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Provenance:
Private Collection of the late Brenton S. Rowe, Toronto
Ex Collection of the late C.H. Lathrop, Lebanon, Connecticut
Literature:
Documented in Grancsay, Stephen V., AMERICAN ENGRAVED POWDER HORNS: A STUDY BASED ON THE J.H. GRENVILLE GILBERT COLLECTION, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945, Catalogue no. 410
Note:
Named Towns: New Haven, Saybrook, Wallingford, Middletown, Farmington, Hartford
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