Horn With Patch

[Tim Crosby]

 

 It is from the Kendall collection in Scott and Cathy Sibley’s recent book, Building The Southern Banded Horn.
 Around the outside curve it is about 12”. The base is Poplar and about 2 ¼”, held in by the same 4 steel pins that hold the base band on. The tips is of Whitetail antler, it is a two part, held together with 3 pins and attached to the horns with 6. In the pix I have seen the tip looks like it may have been a bit longer so I added some to it. The plate/patch is Pewter and is attached with 8 Pewter pins, I do not know if the plate was a patch or decoration, in anycase it is a really neat horn.
 The color is AF and the standard Brown shoe polish.


  Tim C.   

[Howard]

Tim, you did a nice job. The patch on the original horn is silver. When you hold it to the light you can see a hole that the patch covers. Louie Parker found this a a pawn shop in Mo. about 30 years ago & was gracious to let me have it then. He has a great eye. Howard

[Tim Crosby]

 Thanks Gene. It was in the picture that you sent me some time ago but I could not see the patch. I thought it was Silver but did not have any, I figured Pewter was better than German Silver.
  Thanks for sharing the horns.

  Tim C.

[skillman]

I think the pewter looks fine Tim and trust me, Rase bought silver recently for a German gun. He was complaining to high heaven last weekend about the price.

Steve

[smorrison]

Very nice work, Tim.  It looks great!

Scott