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Powder horn believed owned by Alexander Hamilton sold

FILE In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, photo, a horn believed to have been owned by Alexander Hamilton is photographed at Antique NJ in Closter, N.J. The powder horn that some experts believe was used by Alexander Hamilton goes up for auction Monday on would have been his birthday. Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and one of the country's Founding Fathers, is now the focus of a blockbuster hip-hop Broadway musical called "Hamilton." The owner of the powder horn, a New Jersey dentist, hopes buzz from the show will help boost bids, which start at $10,000 at Sterling Associates in Closter, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez,file) FILE In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, photo, a horn believed to have been owned by Alexander Hamilton is photographed at Antique NJ in Closter, N.J. The powder horn that some experts believe was used by Alexander Hamilton goes up for auction Monday on would have been his birthday. Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and one of the country's Founding Fathers, is now the focus of a blockbuster hip-hop Broadway musical called "Hamilton." The owner of the powder horn, a New Jersey dentist, hopes buzz from the show will help boost bids, which start at $10,000 at Sterling Associates in Closter, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez,file)

By Associated Press January 12, 2016 1 min read

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – A powder horn believed owned by Alexander Hamilton has sold for $115,620 at auction in New Jersey.

Hamilton played key roles in the founding of the United States and is now the focus of the blockbuster hip-hop Broadway musical, “Hamilton.”

Bidding at Sterling Associates in Closter (CLOH’-ster) started at $10,000 Monday on what would have been Hamilton’s birthday. Auction house owner Steven D’Atri says the buyer did not want to be identified.

A New Jersey dentist had owned it.

The powder horn is inscribed with Hamilton’s name and 1773, the year in which the child born out of wedlock in the Caribbean entered what today is Columbia University.

The nation’s first treasury secretary was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr in Weehawken in 1804.