AN AMERICAN ENGRAVED BASEBALL POWDER HORN
AN AMERICAN ENGRAVED BASEBALL POWDER HORN
AN AMERICAN ENGRAVED BASEBALL POWDER HORN
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THE GLADSTONE COLLECTION OF BASEBALL ART
AN AMERICAN ENGRAVED BASEBALL POWDER HORN

DATED 1897

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AN AMERICAN ENGRAVED BASEBALL POWDER HORN
DATED 1897
Engraved with a baseball player, various animals and a sailing ship
16 ½ in. long

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Powder horn with incised decoration throughout including a wonderful rendering of a uniformed 19th century baseball player standing with bat (almost 5" tall). Additional décor includes sailing ship, horses, parrot, lion, leopards, and other birds. Select detail painted in red with wooden end cap and brass brads intact. Quite possibly the only baseball decorated example of this popular 19th century folk art medium: EX

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