Watch List notes:

POWDER HORN, 19th century, large horn with silver (?) cover on wide end, this inscribed, 'Souvenir/from/New Zealand/Mrs Alfred Priestley./From her Friend/Stephen Hutchison/1867', also with a silver (?) cover on the tip of the lift off top cover, with two suspension rings fitted and these fitted with a heavy cord for wearing, the horn is engraved in great detail with a Maori woman above a group of Maori warriors performing a war dance and with various flowers (approx size 8x38cm). Edge bump on end plate and tip of top cover bent, otherwise good very fine.

Ex Christie's Sale 26.8.2001 (lot 48).

Stephen Hutchison was the representative for the Peninsula District of the Provincial Council. He was also the lessee of the Dunedin Gas Works and the contractor to the Dunedin Council for street lighting.