Picked up horn from barn sale

[vtbuck223]

I recently picked this horn up from a barn sale. It measure 13 inches straight across....over 15 inches if you follow the outside curve. My question is...does this horn follow any particular regional pattern? I have seen this type of carving near the spout before...does it have a particular reference name? Also the hole near the spout is perfectly angled and seems too strategically located to be "wormhole"....is it for some other purpose? Thanks...Jeremy.

[mr. no gold]

That is one nice horn! Guess I better get out there and attend those barn sales, (if we had any, out here). Looks like it could be somewhat early. My guess is that with the pine butt plug and the carved ring it falls into the first quarter of the 1800s. Could be even earlier. Very nice find. Alas, the hole is a beetle hole, and even if human made would fulfill no purpose. Leave it, or fill it with a good phenolic material to stabilize/minimize the damage. Thank you for putting it out there for the folks to see. I enjoyed seeing it.
Dick

[alyce-james]

Super great find. Thanks for sharing the pictures with us. AJ.

[bigbat]

One worm hole will lead to another,  Put it in a cold freezer for a week to kill the larvae that are most likely still in the horn. If you have other horns around the house they will get the bugs too.

Scott Sibley

[wattlebuster]

Great find. thanks for the pics

[greybeard]

Now , that to my mind is a classic horn   Bob

[vtbuck223]

Yikes....I guess I better get all of my horns into the freezer....my wife won't mind...I'll put them next to the beaver pelt I still haven't fleshed. Thanks for the responses.

[Tim Crosby]

 Nice find, Thanks for posting the pics.

  Tim C.