ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR RARE POWDER HORN CARRIED BY CHARLES AMES 1st BATTLE AT LEXINGTON , MASS. Start Price USD 15,000.00 Current Price USD 15,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 03, 2008 End Time Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Location Metairie, Louisiana See more about 'ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR RARE POWDER HORN CARRIED BY' Description skinnybudah Store THIS IS A ONE OF A KIND RARE ORIGINAL MILITARY PIECE FROM THE COLLECTION OF PRESCOTT FOLLETT HERE IN LOUISIANA !!!  IT MEASURES ABOUT 3.80" NEARLY FOUR INCHES ON THE BIG SIDE AND 14 TO 15 INCHES FROM OUTSIDE TIP TO OUTSIDE TIP OF CAP !!! THAT DWARFS OTHER NON IDENTIFIED REV. WAR HORNS I HAVE EVER SEEN ON E-BAY AND IN THE WORLD !!!  IT HAS THE ORIGINAL OWNER'S PAPER TAG IDENTIFYING IT , AS CARRIED BY CHARLES AMES AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WHICH WAS FOUGHT AT LEXINGTON , MASS. !!! THIS LARGE HORN WAS CARRIED TO REFILL MEN'S SMALLER POWDER HORNS AND FLASKS , MUCH AS A MODERN DAY AMMUNITION CARRIER WOULD DO FOR HIS COMRADES !!! AMES WAS OBVIOUSLY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER AS THE BRITISH CARRIED PAPER CARTRIDGES OR PRE-MEASURES AND STANDARDLY AN AMMO POUCH OR CARTRIDGE BOX !!!  I ALSO KNOW THAT THE GRANDSON TOLD ME AMES WAS AN AMERICAN AS PER HIS GRANDFATHER'S STORY ABOUT THE ARTIFACT . I WAS INFORMED BY A FELLOW SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ,WHICH MY FAMILY BELONGS TO, THAT HE SAW MY EARLIER AUCTION AND TOLD ME  OF THE USE OF THIS TYPE OF BIG HORN AND THAT OTHER THAN HIS HE ONLY KNEW OF ONE OTHER IN A MUSEUM . THIS ITEM WAS PASSED DOWN FROM THE ORIGINAL FAMILY AND FOUND IT'S WAY TO A VERY LARGE REVOLUTIONARY AND CIVIL WAR COLLECTION WHICH WAS HANDLED BY BANNERMAN'S MILITARIA OF NEW YORK FROM A LARGE COLLECTION OF HORNS AND REVOLUTIONARY ITEMS (THE GRANDSON OF FOLLETT TOLD ME OF TWO PREVIOUS COLLECTOR'S AND COLLECTIONS THAT MR. FOLLETT BOUGHT ITEMS FROM BANNERMAN'S, NEW YORK ,I RECALL ONLY THE ONE NAME (I RECALL THAT NAME EASILY FROM OUR CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE OF THE MOVIE MR. BROOKS, THE OTHER NAME I MAY HAVE WRITTEN DOWN AS I TOOK NOTES AND PHOTOS WHEN I BOUGHT THIS AND THE SWORD COLLECTION , I JUST HAVE TO FIND THEM IN MY TAX RECORDS . THAT ONE I REMEMBER  WAS A MR. BROOKS OF CONNETICUT AND FOLLET'S GRANDFATHER BOUGHT THE HORN PRIVATELY FROM BANNERMAN'S AS HE WAS A REGULAR CUSTOMER OF CHOICE MILITARIA  . THE COLLECTION I BOUGHT THIS FROM WAS THE GRANDSON OF PRESCOTT FOLLETT WHO'S GRANDFATHER HAD THE HORN SINCE THE 30'S TO LATE 40'S . THE GRANDSON ALWAYS REMEMBERED IT IN THE HOUSE FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE UNTIL HE INHERITED THE ENTIRE COLLECTION AND HOUSE .  I HAVE HAD SWORDS , GENUINE INDIAN MEDALS , CRUSADE SWORDS AND ARTIFACTS AND MANY MORE ITEMS FROM THE ESTATE , BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM FOLLETT'S GRANDSON . THIS EXTREMELY RARE HORN HAS THE ORIGINAL IDENTYFING TAG WITH THE INFORMATION ABOUT CHARLES AMES , IT'S FIRST OWNER IN PEN AND INK ON ANCIENT PERIOD PAPER . IT ALSO HAS SOME INITIALS , MINOR SPOUT CARVING AND A SILVER TAG AFFIXED WHICH WAS NEVER ENGRAVED BY THE FAMILY AS THE FIRST COLLECTOR IN THE 1800'S - EARLY 1900'S THEN BANNERMAN'S THEN FOLLETT BOUGHT THE ORIGINAL ITEM FOR HIS COLLECTION . SEVERAL YEARS AGO , I WAS CONTACTED BY E-BAY , BOWERS AND MERENA WHO OFFERED TO SELL THIS ITEM FOR ME AT AUCTION WHEN THEY SAW IT OFFERED BY ME IN AN AUCTION ON E-BAY . I STOPPED THE AUCTION , BUT  I NEVER GOT AROUND TO CONSIGNING IT AND STILL HAVE MAINTAINED IT IN MY PERSONAL MILITARIA COLLECTION . I WAS ALSO CONTACTED BY A FELLOW WHO HAS A SIMILAR HORN AND KNEW OF ONLY ONE OTHER ON DISPLAY IN A REVOLUTIONARY COLLECTION AT A MUSEUM . THIS ITEM IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE AND IS 100% AUTHENTIC . ANYONE IS WELCOME TO RESEARCH THE COLLECTOR OR ORIGINAL FAMILY MEMBER'S. ONE EXERPT FROM THE MASS. SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 17 VOLS. IS A LIKELY POSSIBILITY :Excerpt on site :  Ames, Charles, Leominster.Private, Capt. David Wilder's co., Col. Asa Whitcomb's regt.; muster roll Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War 2 Revised register of the soldiers and sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 2 Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841 1 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. 1 Military minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821 1 New York in the Spanish-American War, 1898 : part of the report of the adjutant-general of the state for 1900. 1 Partial list of early settlers, Revolutionary soldiers and the graves of Augusta County soldiers located to date 1 Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution : containing an account of the origin of the Sons o 1 Vermont Men in the Revolutionary WarON ANCESTARY.COM LISTED ABOVE , THERE ARE HITS AND INFORMATION ON THE NAME CHARLES AMES IN ALL THE FOLLOWING CATAGORIES ,INCLUDING MASS. SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR . I NEVER RESEARCHED THIS  ITEM FURTHER . I KNOW THE AGE AND WHERE IT HAS BEEN FOR ABOUT 75 YEARS OR MORE AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME AND EVIDENTLY FOR BOWERS E-BAY AUCTIONS WHO CONTACTED ME PREVIOUSLY !!!   NAME WHO CARRIED IT INTO BATTLE !!!  ON SUCH A RARE ITEM , CONDITION DOES NOT FACTOR IN , HOWEVER I WILL GLADLY GIVE A DESCRIPTION . THE HORN IS ABOUT 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER AT IT'S WIDEST AND OVER A FOOT LONG WITH A DRAMATIC CURVE , FROM AN ANIMAL , LIKE A BISON BUFFALO OR BULL . IT HAS A HAND CARVED WOODEN CAP WITH A SPOT FOR A THREADED PLUG WHICH IS NOT PRESENT . THERE ARE BRONZE OR COPPER PERIOD NAILS AROUND THE CAP AFFIXING IT TO THE HORN , AND SOME CRACKS WHICH DO NOT WEAKEN THE PIECE TRAVELING FROM A COUPLE OF THESE WELL PATINA'D FIXTURES . THERE ARE INITIALS IN INK TH AND THE SILVER TAG AFFIXED WITH SILVER BRADS . THERE IS THE ORIGINAL PAPER TAG WHICH HAS BEEN ON THE HORN SINCE SHORTLY AFTER THE BATTLE AS THIS WAS PASSED DOWN IN THE AMES FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES UNTIL ENDING UP IN FOLLETT'S COLLECTION . THE END IS CARVED INTO A LARGE SPOUT WHICH WAS FOR FILLING SMALLER POWDER HORNS AND FLASKS . THE HORN HAS BEEN IN THE FOLLETT COLLECTION FOR NEAR 75 YEARS AND HAS A FANTASTIC PATINA AS WELL AS OBVIOUS AGE OF OVER 100 YEARS ON THE PAPER MUSEUM / EARLY COLLECTOR'S TYPE TAG ATTACHED TO IT . GOOD LUCK !  OFFERS ENTERTAINED, THANK YOU ANYHOW . BIDDING STARTS AT WHAT I WOULD START IT AT IN THE CALIFORNIA AUCTION , ANTIQUES ROADSHOW PRICES THESE MUCH HIGHER ALWAYS FOR YOU WATCHERS OUT THERE !!! Place a Bid!