Used long ago by hunters and soldiers to carry their gunpowder and keep it dry, the handy curved containers were made from the hollowed-out horns of bulls, and were often hand-decorated too. But as ...

On Monday's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," a Las Vegas man brought in a beautiful artifact straight off the battlefields of the Revolutionary War. "Engraved powder horns are one of the earliest forms ...

TICONDEROGA — Fort Ticonderoga has received an engraved powder horn dating back to the year the fortification was captured by the British during the French and Indian War. Officials at the tourist ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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3 of 6 — Some of the stolen firearms and other items discovered by the FBI in their investigation of Michael Corbett. Shown here are a rare Colt Whitneyville Walker revolver (lower left row marked "CT ...