• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

I picked this up today at the gun show….

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Joined
Feb 3, 2011
Messages
4,127
Reaction score
2,111
Location
Ohio, the land of the Shawnee
It’s a powder horn that’s a clever forgery as far as I can tell. It’s signed WK up by the twisted staple. It also has square wooden pegs that hold the base plug in and has some oddball trauma to the base plug where it meets the horn, the trauma exposed one of the wooden pegs completely. Also has small bug like holes, which are exactly the same depth… I think those holes are man made. It has plenty of file marks scraping marks. The whole top half was left raw..the horn also came filled with 2f black powder. I like it!! The old fella who sold the horn to me was around 85 but was unable to attend the gunshow, it was his son who was the vendor. He also had other horns and other black powder stuff,He also had an old can of goex with a soldered on spout that he was selling. It’s a rarity that I go to the local gunshow and see all the BP stuff at one booth. Opinions are welcome on this piece.
 

Attachments

  • FE3BE2EB-1FEA-41D0-A3E1-E8BBD6364841.jpeg
    FE3BE2EB-1FEA-41D0-A3E1-E8BBD6364841.jpeg
    1.7 MB · Views: 3
  • D1DA1892-271A-4A4B-99ED-D4DB5025AD7A.jpeg
    D1DA1892-271A-4A4B-99ED-D4DB5025AD7A.jpeg
    1.4 MB · Views: 0
  • 7E5B05E8-B8E9-444B-9DC9-1C73B8BB0EE8.jpeg
    7E5B05E8-B8E9-444B-9DC9-1C73B8BB0EE8.jpeg
    1.5 MB · Views: 0
  • 938921BE-944C-432E-AEB1-713CC3E850DC.jpeg
    938921BE-944C-432E-AEB1-713CC3E850DC.jpeg
    1.6 MB · Views: 0
  • 6E13ED4E-DF15-453F-A531-F46B6C402C1C.jpeg
    6E13ED4E-DF15-453F-A531-F46B6C402C1C.jpeg
    1.6 MB · Views: 0
  • 7571C11E-A75F-4112-960F-437C48E81158.jpeg
    7571C11E-A75F-4112-960F-437C48E81158.jpeg
    1.4 MB · Views: 0
Last edited:
The initials in the base plug are definitely stamped, rather than carved by hand. That says newer. I agree with another, it could be 50-60 years old.
That and it has a twisted staple. All the original horns I’ve seen have straight staples. Howeve, I’ve only looked at about 50-60 original horns so I could be wrong on that.
 
Yep....you nailed it on the description. Anyone who has looked at real antiques could see that these features are a rather amateurish attempt at making it look old. I don't even think the person did this with the idea to deceive...they just thought "What can I do to make this look old?". They were experimenting.
 
It’s a powder horn that’s a clever forgery as far as I can tell. It’s signed WK up by the twisted staple. It also has square wooden pegs that hold the base plug in and has some oddball trauma to the base plug where it meets the horn, the trauma exposed one of the wooden pegs completely. Also has small bug like holes, which are exactly the same depth… I think those holes are man made. It has plenty of file marks scraping marks. The whole top half was left raw..the horn also came filled with 2f black powder. I like it!! The old fella who sold the horn to me was around 85 but was unable to attend the gunshow, it was his son who was the vendor. He also had other horns and other black powder stuff,He also had an old can of goex with a soldered on spout that he was selling. It’s a rarity that I go to the local gunshow and see all the BP stuff at one booth. Opinions are welcome on this piece.
NOW, that is awesome. Semper Fi.
 
IMO, it's perfect for displaying over or next to the fireplace with a similar condition frontstuffer rifle.


1673623895191.png
 
Back
Top