Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch 14 5/8" l x 7

14 5/8" l x 7 1/2" t x 7/8" d and in very good structural condition

This folding cardboard sample card

I also really love that she looks both like a young girl and an older woman at the same time (with her pencil-drawn gray hair)

which makes it easy to take a seat

Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch 14 5/8" l x 7This wonderful thing. In far from perfect condition (I would never have gotten my hands on it otherwise!), but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface, including figures, crosses, snake, lizard, tree and who knows what all. Though it is possible it functioned as a powder horn, I have found some examples with the same sort of carved wooden base that were drinking cups, and there is evidence it