Lot Essay
Engraved in between battles during the Seven Years War (French and Indian War, 1756-1763) in the upstate New York area between Albany and Lake Champlain, the powder horns associated with this school are often defined by their letter style, use of animals, caricatures and coats of arms as well as geometric borders flanking the inscribed registers (for a full account of decorative elements seen on Lake George powder horns, see Guthman, Drums A'beating, Trumpets Sounding (Hartford, 1993) p. 40). Although the inscription of this powder horn most closely resembles the handwriting associated with the five powder horns attributed to the Selkrig-Page Carver, all of which are also dated 1758, insufficient genealogical information exists on George Potter to confirm that he was a member of the same Connecticut company and regiment common to all other documented original Selkrig-Page powder horn owners.