American Revolutionary War Powder Horn & Two More. This is one lot of three different sized powder horns. We know that one was carved during the Revolutionary War, but we are not sure when the other two were converted to powder horns. The largest one measures 15 3/4 inches along the back of the horn, from the end of the butt plug to the spout, and it is engraved “David T. Hall. His Horn. Made in The Year Of April The 5 Day 1781”, which was in the midst of the Revolutionary War. (Powder horns were usually filled with gunpowder at the wider butt plug end and the gunpowder was dispensed from the narrower spout.) The horn has floral decorations on the bands of the powder horn, it is not pitted, and we don’t see any sign of cracks or damage to the horn; the rawhide is probably a modern addition, and we know that particular horn hung down from a musket at the consignor’s home. We’ve done research on Revolutionary War battles that occurred around April 5, 1781, and we only found three listed, all in South Carolina: at Hammond’s Hill, Witherspoon Ferry, and Horner’s Corner (Horn Creek), in Edgefield County. They all took place on April 3, 1781, and we don’t know if the horn was with David Hall that day, but it’s an interesting starting point for further research. We also found a David Hall who was an American lawyer and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and member of the Democratic-Republican Party who served as Governor of Delaware from 1802 to 1805. He joined a Delaware regiment in the Revolutionary War and fought at the battles of Long Island and White Plains, and later became leader of the regiment. They fought at Brandywine and Germantown, where he was wounded in 1777. He spent time a year recovering, returned to his regiment, and returned home in 1779. His regiment went to South Carolina in 1780, but Hall did not go, and that’s as much as we know. This may or may not be the David T. Hall whose name is on the powder horn, but it seems like more research needs to be done. The other two horns are darker and not engraved; the larger one is 15 1/2 inches long from the butt plug to the spout, and the smaller one is 9 inches long from the plug to the spout. They are not pitted or damaged, from what we can tell, and we don’t know when they were converted to powder horns. Size: 12 1/4 x 5 x 2 1/2 in.