Jim, I'll see if pictures are possible, may take some time. To visualize the horn, think of a large, black buffalo horn, lots of curve, that is flattened and then shaped into an octogon with: large flat panels on front and back, smaller flat panels on top and bottom, and really small flats at the corners of the larger panels, creating an "almost" rectangle cross-section with corners flattened into an octagon. The white and red inlaid dots run along edges of each panel of horn as borders. The front panel has a lot more colored dots, making a moderate sized heart figure near the plug end with the initials CF inside, all done in the same colored inlaid dots. As mentioned in first post, the white bone inlay is solid, but the red inlay seems to be chipping off around the surface, as if it's a softer material like hardened red clay...I didn't look that close at red dots to really know, other than not as smooth and perfect as white bone ones now...but must have been when horn was new. The spout is worked into an octagon as all the panels come together, so the bone spout tip is also shaped as an octagon to match the horn body. Tip is perhaps 2 inches long and tapers. Up on spout near bone tip are several small, flat white bone inlays decorating the larger flats. They are attached by round black "pins" probably made of buffalo horn. A couple of the small white rectangular panels have fallen off as the pins have fallen out. Horn is old with good patina, not one of those highly polished "typical" buffalo powder horns that look almost new. Hope that helps you visualize it a little better. P.S. does anyone know a buffalo hunter with last initial "F" and perhaps his wife's first initial "C"? Shelby Gallien
