I'll post this in hopes of getting an interesting conversation started.
This horn was my Grandfather's which he have me in the 60's. (1960's)
The story always was that it belonged to my Great Great Grandfather who was a civil war vet.
As I became more knowledgable of history stuff (not spelling)I think that though it was his horn, he did not actually use it during the civil war. As a union soldier in the east, he would of had a standard musket as well as paper rolled cartridges, etc. Very few soldiers of that era carried horns.
Anyway, as I became more interested in the long rifle, etc I believe this to be an early large horn. Plain as it is, I think it may be Rev War era, maybe even earlier.
I am eager to hear opinions of those far more experienced than I.
As for the furnace chain on it. That's how my Pap had it and I am not going to remove it, even though it basically ruins the look, being from an old coal fired hot air furnace.
He put it in there sometime during his life as that's all he had. Who am I to remove it.
Regards to all
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