RARE Inscribed Powder Horn Late 19th Century, Mexican Eagle & Snake

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RARE Inscribed Powder Horn Late 19th Century, Mexican Eagle & Snake :
$395.00

RARE Inscribed Powder Horn Late 19th C with Mexican Eagle & Snake and Puss in Boots..

Beautiful intricatecarving with the \"Cornish\" name Guillermo Pengelly inscribed. Pengelly was from Pachuca Hidalgo and played for Mexico\'s first Soccer \"Futbol\". Team Metal brads hold the wooden cap to the horn and a ring

to suspend from the belt. It was The Cornish who first introduced soccer / football to Mexico (Pachuca). The Mexican national football game was first played in Mexico by Cornish miners in Pachuca in 1900, an event celebrated each year. Founded the first club in the country, football athletic club Pachuca, also in that year, the little known fact and believed a little in a country so devoted to \"football\", the national sport. The first team consisted of Charles Dawe, John Dawe, James Bennetts, John Bennetts, William Blamey, Richard Sobey, William Bragg, William Thomas, Percy bunt, bunt the Lionel, Albert Pangelly and William Pengelly. A team decidedly \"of Cornwall.\" Pachuca Club encouraged the formation of teams in Mexico City and Orizaba, the first championship was played in 1902 and \"El Pachuca\" won the tournament 1904-05. The district of Pachuca - Real del Monte has a rich heritage of which the period of the influence of Cornwall is only part. Conservative District mines are estimated to have produced 1.2 billion Troy ounces of silver and 6.2 million ounces of gold. 6 percent of the silver mined throughout the world for five centuries and are still in production today. But Rugby Union, Cricket, Tennis, Polo, Chess and other sports and Mexican remittances helped build the Wesleyan Chapel in Redruth, Cornwall in the 1820s. Methodism was also introduced by De Cornwall upon their arrival, most of the descendants of the Cornish Real del Monte and Pachuca is the Methodist Faith, Inv. #1551

Starts at $395!

SIZE: Approx 12\" in length,

CONDITION: Fairly Good condition - There are quite a few old insect bore holes that have been eaten through

the horn many, many decades ago as seen in the pictures. Still, Great and Rare!

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