It is about 14” around the outside curve and about 10” Tip to Tip. The Maple butt is held in with 12 wooden pegs, it is hollowed out about 3/4s its length. The tip is Whitetail antler and the collar is of horn, they are both pinned to the horn with 3 small Iron pins each. The bands are heated and pressed on and then pinned to retain them. The original is on page 369 of Jay Hopkins book,
Bone Tipped & Banded Horns it is listed as found with a rifle in Pendleton Co. W Va. For color it was boiled in a mix of dyes and finished off with Brown shoe polish. Once some powder goes in and out the stopper will go all the way in.
Tim C.
