Wonderful Antique Wooden Horn in Original Paint with Bentwood Handle --Loud! delft with all seams holding tight

with all seams holding tight

but it's the simultaneous attention paid to faces and outfits and postures and gestures and hairstyles that endears these to me

with white basting stitches--which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing-- still in place

and large enough to hold all sorts of things

and in some cases who it was bred to later on

Wonderful Antique Wooden Horn in Original Paint with Bentwood Handle --Loud! delft with all seams holding tightHappy New Year! This antique wooden horn is a fun one to play, trumpeting very loudly, rather like a kazoo, and with a finger hole too for wavering the sound. Which was a happy discovery; I purchased it, sound unheard, just because I found it quite beautiful. Turned carved from one piece of wood, in original creamy white paint, and with a great bentwood (bent reed?) handle that enhances a sense of specialness. A sweet thing. 11 1 2" t. 1 7 8" d at