This one started out as a plain eastern backwoods style green horn with a red painted pine plug made by Mike Clemons of SW Virginia.
I used that horn as the base for what might have been a period eastern horn gone west and decorated to the owners's desires as well as some needed "repairs". There were in fact lots of eastern horns sent west so it does follow the documentation for such eastern made horns going west.
Anyway Mike had scraped this one thin enough to see the powder level so I decided not to cover the whole horn with the rawhide repair as I have on others - just a rear end repair and a mouth repair. I then added some brass tacks, pound beadwork and some chicken scratchings on the rawhide. The mouth plug was also repaired with rawhide and linen cord wrap that attaches it to the horn.
The straps are made from braintan and have some pound beadwork added. They attach to the shot bag via iron harness rings and are adjustable via two iron harness buckles. The buckles are attached in such a way that there are no loose tongues to get in the way (one of my pet peeves is things getting in the way) ala the more modern Conway buckles, but with a regular tongue.
The whole piece was then given a light aging - well used but not abused.
