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I picked this horn up at a recent gun show. The horn is 12 inches around the outside curve and the base is 2.5 X 3 inches. The base plug is domed and hand carved with a knife. The spout has a deep groove cut for the thong which is most likely a replacement. There are what appear to be "chatter marks" from the horn being scraped with a knife in the horn making process on many spots on the horn. Would be great if they could talk.
 

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Great find! I love those plain, simple old horns!

About how big is the pour-hole in the spout? Just curious… a quarter of an inch seems pretty standard now, but some old horns appear to have pour-holes of larger diameter.

Also, does the butt have a ring or eye for the hanger? I can’t see clearly. A lot of 19th century horns had a screw eye there. A lot of them had a plain old flat-head wood screw.

That’s a nice old horn!

Notchy Bob
 
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