Small Original Powder Horn

[whitebear]

This is an original powder horn that was in my uncles house when he passed away
30 odd years ago.  It is 6 1/2" around the outside curve, 2" X 2 3/8" across the oval but plug with a 1/4" spout hole.  But plug appears to be pine, held in by only 2 tacks with different size heads.  No indication of other tacks or manners of holding the plug in.  It was scraped to a very rough finish as can be seen in the photos.  I know that this is a very generic horn but and one care to make a guess about age and location of manufacture.

[Tim Crosby]

  Pretty generic, hard to put a time and place on. Just out of curiously, have you checked the inside to see if there is anything in it? Like a note.

 Tim C.

PS: My Great Grandfather, William Scherrer, homesteaded in Ontario in the early 1860s. The small pocket horn that was with his single shot percussion shotgun was similar only a little smaller in diameter and darker in color.TC   

[Mike R]

I have seen many small plain horns like this--most in the southern highlands where MLing never really died out...many are late 1800s-early 1900s hunting horns for small bore rifles. Used to be common flea market items.

[woodsrunner]

I've got a couple like this lying around that Ron Ehlert gave me 10+ years ago. Also a blowing horn to call the dogs that Ron found somewhere local to him. Which brings up.......

Blowing horns. Why don't we see these? Heck, I grew up fox hunting as a lot of us country boys did! Blowing horns ought to be fairly common in rural areas of the South....anyone collect these

[art riser]

could even be a cap horn given the size of the spout...

[Mike R]

could even be a cap horn given the size of the spout...

Good point--or a shot horn.

[flintriflesmith]

Blowing horns.
....anyone collect these

IIRC, Wallace Gusler had a couple of examples and talked about them at Mel's TN longrifle show at the Museum of Appalachia in the spring. I believe he also had a large conch shell blowing horn with a silver mouth piece on display.

I’m not a member of the Horner’s’ Guild but I seem to recall someone giving a talk at one of their meetings about blowing horns.
Gary

[Tim Crosby]

 Probably Billy Griner, he knows them well and makes a beauty.

 Tim C.