Yard sale priming horn

[Silex]

Yard sale priming horn
A couple of weeks ago I browsed through items on a yard sale and this flat small horn caught my eye.
It’s not particularly “nice” but being to quite a number of such sales it was the first one I found and I wanted one for quite a while. After a little back and forth I got it for 6 bucks. It holds 550 grains of FFFg.





What do you say?

Silex

 

[wvbuckbuster]

A great find for 6 bucks. Make sure that base plug is well sealed an easy fix. Dan.

 

[Bob J]

Would also work as a bag horn for a day's hunt!

 

[pargent]

:thumbsup:

 

[Jaeger]

A bargain at $6. Hard to tell, but that thing could be really old. The base plug is interesting. Could that stuff be some kind of board made of pressed wood chips?

 

[Wes/Tex]

Neat old small horn, dude, you stole it! :wink: :haha:

 

[robinson]

You did well pilgrim,you got to love yard sales,auctions, and flea markets!

 

[omarick1948]

Nice find and super buy!....Judging from the scale of it in the top picture. I think that the horn may be too large to be a priming horn, but you have yourself a bag or pistol powder horn.

JMHO

 

[Silex]

Thanks everybody, for the tips.
Yes, it might be a tad too big for a priming horn.
The base plug is tight. I was wondering about the material myself but I don't want to destroy the patina exploring what it is really made of.

Thank you,
Silex

 

[bpd303]

The base plug looks like gutta-percha, commonly used in the late 1800s and early 1900s for all sorts of things from pistol grips to picture frames.

 

[satx78247]

I think of that size as a hunting-bag horn, as it likely has plenty of capacity for 2-3 days with a

 

[thecapgunkid]

You gotta love flea markets. Good trade...