gunpowder-horn
- Museum number
- SLMisc.131
- Description
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Powder horn; stag or elk horn; carved scenes: Crucifixion, Adam and Eve, Moses, Isaac, Jesus Christ and God.
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 131 "131. A powder horn a drinking cup made of the large part of a stagg or Elks horn? Scripture histories carvd ---- } 0.10.0."
- Location
- On display (G1/fc14)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- SLMisc.131
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 131 (Miscellanies)