Powder Horn

Artist/Maker
Foltz, George
Place Made
Salem North Carolina United States of America
Date Made
1844-1854
Medium
horn –wood –metal –leather
Dimensions
Approximate LOA 10-1/4″
Accession Number
5680.3
Description
Undecorated powder horn with a flat removables tip for dispensing gun powder. The opposite end has a round carved wooden cap with a metal hook attached for the leather strap.
History
The rifle, pouch and powder horn were a birthday gift for Foltz’s twelve year old nephew, David Reich who lived on a farm in another Moravian settlement in West Salem, Illinois.
Artist Biography
ARTIST BIO: George Foltz was born in 1798. According to Gunsmiths of the Carolinas, 1660-1870, he was a “bricklayer, carpenter and gunsmith from 1819-1843 in the Moravian Community of Salem, North Carolina. Foltz came to Salem from Nazareth, Pennsylvania. He was apprenticed to Christopher Vogler on May 1, 1816. In John Bivins book, Longrifles of North Carolina, Bivins states that Foltz was apparently working with Timothy Vogler after his apprenticeship, since they filed a joint newspaper advertisement for “maple plank…for gunstocks” in the late 1830’s.”

In January 1858 George Foltz was appointed as a commissioner to the Salem Board of Commissioners.

The original George Foltz house was restored during the Old Salem restoration. Located on South Main Street, directly across from the Timothy Vogler Gunsmith shop. George had worked as an apprentice for Vogler in the 1830’s before opening his own gun shop a block or two north of his home on Main Street. The shop burned down in later years and no longer remains.

George E. Foltz is buried in God’s Acre in Salem.

Credit Line
Gift of Charles Reich in memory of Matthews Reich and George and Verona (Reich) Foltz.