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Original Horn - ID

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120RIR:
A buddy of mine picked this up at an antique shop in Connecticut recently.  The base looks like pine and is attached to the horn with small square copper nails.  Interestingly, there is no indication of any kind of staple or any other feature one might expect for a strap.  Can anyone weigh in on age, possible regional origin, etc. or is it simply too generic to tell much about it?

rich pierce:
Size?

120RIR:
In a straight line from the tip to the center of the base is almost exactly 12 inches.

Cades Cove Fiddler:
 :o :o... not saying is a definite, but North Carolina horns are famous for tips with eight facets,......... nice horn,... regards,.... Cades Cove Fiddler...

Elnathan:
It looks like there was a chunk of wood that split away on the base there. I wonder if there was originally a hole drilled there and a string or leather thong threaded through and knotted - not a common way of carrying a horn but I have seen arrangement like that before. The peg might have put pressure on the knot, causing the wood to split over time.

Or, maybe, the peg had the strap attached somehow.

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