拍品专文
Strategically located on the Thames River in Connecticut, on the site of earlier fortifications, Fort Trumbull is now occupied by the United States Coast Guard Academy.
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AN ENGRAVED POWDER HORN
INSCRIBED AND DATED "FORT TRUMBULL, NEW LONDON, JANUARY 30, 1777
With swag and serpentine-form borders enclosing the inscription: "in sup(p)ort of Independence," and full-length figures of a man and woman facing and in profile--14in. long
INSCRIBED AND DATED "FORT TRUMBULL, NEW LONDON, JANUARY 30, 1777
With swag and serpentine-form borders enclosing the inscription: "in sup(p)ort of Independence," and full-length figures of a man and woman facing and in profile--14in. long