Just a simple horn

[Powder Flask Collector]

Your flasks are beautiful! I hope that you can post more pictures of individual flasks.

It is just s simple flat horn, like thousands still exist, and they are cheap in Europe. They have been made in home work, semi-industrially or by craftsmen.
The horn is only 7 inches long. Probably a day horn.
But this horn has a very special cord.
The previous owner told me that the horn is from the Black Forst area and a maiden braided this ribbon from a strand of her long blond hair for her lover.

 

[HSmithTX]

Very cool!!

 

[Absoroka]

Fun story

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

These simple horns without decoration have their own beauty . ....... the beauty of a functional tool.
The flat horns shown above are rather small pocket horns.
The third one is from Scandinavia and had a small lead ball inside (.38 cal. ). Maybe it was used as a horn for bullets.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

I think that a lot of the simple horns are home made. The right one in the upper picture is rather crude. So I think this horn was not made by a craftsman. The left one is more elaborate.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

Flat pressed "Plain Jane" cow horn with a carved fish head. Supposedly relatively common in Sandinavia, Northern Europe and the Baltics. In the book for the exhibition "Drei Jahrhunderte Europäische Jagdpulverbehälter" of the -Musée National D'Histoire et D'Art- Luxembourg from 1995, a similar powder horn is shown, which is said to be typical for the North Sea regions, but also for the area of the Baltic States. Dated around 1750. I think my horn is not that old, and especially not so well preserved.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

I recently got an undecorated horn from an antiques dealer in Marseille, France.
I was told the horn was in the posess of a family in the french "Massive Central". The horn belonged to the grandfather who had passed long time ago and had been a passionate hunter.
Fairy tales of a dealer?

Nobody can say for sure, if this horn is really a continental horn or if it came from the the french colonies in North Africa. It seems to be old, but not worthful. For me it is just another plain horn.

(For comparison an english powder flask with a hunter and his dog)

 

[Compressorguy]

It is just s simple flat horn, like thousands still exist, and they are cheap in Europe. They have been made in home work, semi-industrially or by craftsmen.
The horn is only 7 inches long. Probably a day horn.
But this horn has a very special cord.
The previous owner told me that the horn is from the Black Forst area and a maiden braided this ribbon from a strand of her long blond hair for her lover.

“Simply“ beautiful!

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

I got 3 more continental powder horns



I think the two flat horns have been made in the 2nd part of the 19th century.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

The top and the basis are made of flat horn pieces and are attached with wooden nails.
The spout is made of brass.

Such simple powder flasks seem to have been rather popular.