Author Topic: A Match Storage Horn (Read 1919 times)

Tim Crosby · « **on:** March 16, 2020, 10:58:57 PM »

About 6 X 2 X 3/4". It has an Antler collar that is attached to the horn with Three iron pins. The wooden stopper has a leather washer, there is a tin plate on the bottom with teeth similar to a rasp to strike the matches on.

Tim C.

PS: Bobby, hope this will work for ya. TC

BOB HILL · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2020, 11:54:07 PM »

Neat idea, Tim.
Bob

Bob McBride · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2020, 12:01:13 AM »

msellers · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2020, 12:15:36 AM »

I like this, would be a perfect use for one of the smaller horns I have.
Mike

Jerry · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:16:43 AM »

Tim, I like everything about your horn. The leather washer is a neat idea. Jerry

Mike from OK · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:01:43 AM »

I saw the title of this and thought it was going to be a large horn for storing extra powder for refilling your regular horn at a shooting MATCH...

Imagine my surprise.

Well done as always Tim.

Mike

G. Elsenbeck · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:26:27 PM »

Very clever and imaginative Tim. Like it.
Gary

Marcruger · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:42:07 PM »

Cool little project. 😎

Smokey Plainsman · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2020, 10:52:52 PM »

I looked up how old matches had been around, thinking it was a more modern invention.

Turns out, matches of the modern type could be found in 1820s. Very cool match horn, Tim.

Bob McBride · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2020, 11:02:07 PM »

Smokey, I had Tim make that to go with a flat tobacco horn. It represents about that period for me. It’s being used in the sitting area of my shop. I love horn stuff.

Tim Crosby · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2020, 11:30:38 PM »

Yea, I wondered myself so I did a little research on matches, this was interesting:

" The first friction matches were invented by John Walker, an English chemist and apothecary, whose ledger of April 7, 1827, records the first sale of such matches. Walker’s “Friction Lights” had tips coated with a potassium chloride–antimony sulfide paste, which ignited when scraped between a fold of sandpaper. He never patented them. Nonphosphoric friction matches were being made by G.-E. Merkel of Paris and J. Siegal of Austria, among others, by 1832, by which time the manufacture of friction matches was well established in Europe.
In 1831 Charles Sauria of France incorporated white, or yellow, phosphorus in his formula, an innovation quickly and widely copied. In 1835 Jànos Irinyi of Hungary replaced potassium chlorate with lead oxide and obtained matches that ignited quietly and smoothly."

So I felt comfortable with it fitting in.

Tim

https://www.britannica.com/science/match-tinder#ref15121

Clark Badgett · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2020, 12:36:26 AM »

Have any of you gents ever seen honest early style matches? I have and they looked a bit different then, but that is splitting hairs.

bob in the woods · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2020, 02:56:09 AM »

I thought it would be a horn used to store slow match for a match lock ! Got to keep it dry

rich pierce · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2020, 03:04:54 AM »

The striker surface is cool. I can’t find “strike anywhere” matches around here. Would like some.

Nordnecker · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2020, 02:08:24 PM »

Neat horn and idea for sure.
AHEM....I have bought several boxes of wooden "struck anywhere" matches in the last few years and they will hardly even light when struck on the box they came in. They used to strike anywhere- on your blue jeans, zipper, the top of the wood stove, even with your fingernail if you didn't mind risking being burned, but not anymore. A guy selling them at a gunshow had ones that were coated in wax supposedly damp proof and I told him if he could strike on and get it to light I would buy a box. He couldn't even get them to light inside at the show!
I hope yours work better.

Tim Crosby · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2020, 04:04:10 PM »

The ones in the Pic are "Diamond" I tried them on the striker and they worked fine. They come in boxes of 250, three boxes to a package. I get them locally but here is an ad:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Matches-STRIKE-ANYWHERE-3-Boxes-of-300ct-Large-Wood-KITCHEN-Survival-Camping/113605386801?_trkparms=aid%3D1110002%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200116171858%26meid%3D6a9df0f87ed24bff88100aa33c8566e3%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D114116825570%26itm%3D113605386801%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DPromotedSellersOtherItemsV2&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

Tim

Bob McBride · « **Reply #16 on:** March 18, 2020, 04:08:54 PM »

Yea, 90% of the strike anywheres at the store are the green box ‘eco’ matches. They’re worthless.

Mike from OK · « **Reply #17 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:52:17 AM »

You look really cool lighting them with a flick of your thumbnail like Clint Eastwood always did in the spaghetti westerns...

Until a chunk of that burning phosphorus breaks off and goes under that thumbnail.

That isn't too cool.

Mike

T.C.Albert · « **Reply #18 on:** March 21, 2020, 11:34:12 PM »

Haa haa. Under the nail is one thing
But I used to strike them off the edge of
A front tooth. Still remember the taste
Of little cinders on my tongue.
Talk about being a dumb kid.
I like the match horn
Great idea
TC

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