2015 CLA Live Auction Prices

Pouch, Horn & Belt Pouch Set - Tom Greco - $800.00 

Folding Knife - Scott Summerville - $325.00 

Rifle - Bill Pritchard - $2,700.00  

Powder Horn - Jerry Eitnier - $350.00  

Mississippi-Style Knife - Gary Corum - $275.00   

Knife with Sheath - Paul Bigham/Steve Helfrich - $325.00   

Hunting Pouch - William Smith - $250.00   

Turned Handle Knife & Sheath - Ben Hoffman - $200.00   

Native American Ladle - Don Shaver - $575.00   

Push Dagger - Joshua Crain - $175.00   

Woodbury Longhunter Knife & Sheath - Hershel House/John House/Joe Seabolt - $1,500.00   

Desperate Times Bag & Horn Set - Tim Crosby/Tim Albert - $375.00   

Cutlery Set in Quilled Pouch - Glen Mock/Bill Wright - $900.00   

Quilled Pouch - Djuana Tucker - $650.00   

Fraktur Artwork - Sandy Greco - $125.00   

Mesquite Handled Dagger - Steve Auvenshine - $550.00   

Otter Pouch & Buffalo Horn Set - Matthew Fennewald/Alec Fourman - $750.00   

Early Virginia Rifle - Dan Fruth - $2,900.00   

The Charles Parkingham Hooper Adams Hunting Bag - John Weeks - $500.00   

Early Longhunter Knife & Sheath - Heinz Ahlers/Joe Seabolt - $500.00

Tansel Horn - Scott Morrison/Steve Skillman/Glenn Sutt/Steve Vance - $650.00  

2015 CLA Auction Recap

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Featuring contemporary work produced by today's finest CLA artist, the auction will commence on Friday evening at 5PM.  Auction chairman Heinz Ahlers enthusiastically says that this year's art maintains the same high quality as in years past with great offerings for discriminating buyers.

Photos supplied by David Wright.

2015 CLF Live Auction Recap

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Featuring contemporary work produced by today's finest CLA artist, the auction will commence on Friday evening at 5PM.  Auction chairman Heinz Ahlers enthusiastically says that this year's art maintains the same high quality as in years past with great offerings for discriminating buyers.

Photos supplied by David Wright.

2015 CLF Live Auction Recap

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Featuring contemporary work produced by today's finest CLA artist, the auction will commence on Friday evening at 5PM.  Auction chairman Heinz Ahlers enthusiastically says that this year's art maintains the same high quality as in years past with great offerings for discriminating buyers.

Photos supplied by the CLF.

2015 CLF Auction Item: Tansel Horn by Scott Morrison, Steve Skillman, Glenn Sutt, & Steve Vance

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Tansel Horn by Scott Morrison, Steve Skillman, Glenn Sutt, & Steve Vance

The 2015 CLF Fundraising Auction is proud to present this beautiful Tansel styled horn.  This horn was created by Steve Vance, Glenn Sutt, Scott Morrison, and Steve Skillman, all from the Northwest Horn Makers group. The horn has many of the features of Tansel family horns from the Indiana period.

The Tansel family made horns from about 1795 through 1850. They are known to have worked in Scott County, Kentucky and Hendricks County, Indiana. At least one Francis Tansel horn was done at Fort Meigs in 1813. 

This horn has all you could wish for in a Tansel styled horn, the classic fish mouth throat detail, first class scrimshaw fully covering the surface, polychrome coloring, the eagle with a shield, and a Washington portrait. It also features a beehive turned butt with a horn finial and great color and style.  

The Northwest Horn Makers group was started about 5 years ago by John Shourb from California with the idea of getting together horn makers from out West to exchange information and promote horn making. The group has an annual weekend meeting in May, in Littlerock, Washington that includes hands on classes to promote that goal. Several of the group are members of the Honorable Company of Horners. Glenn Sutt is a Journeyman in the Honourable Company. Glenn notes “We don’t have the availability of information and proximity of resources that you have on the East Coast, so this is a good way to raise the level of participation in our craft and the quality of the work being done. It also has gained us recognition in the fact that there are craftsmen outside of the East Coast.”

If you are looking for a horn to display with a high end rifle or a first class horn to display on its own, this horn will show very nicely. It is also a fine working horn for the War of 1812 re-enactor or Western fur trade enthusiast. It would really give bragging rights at the local range or even the Nationals at Friendship. A horn this nice seldom comes available.

Contact information for Scott, Steve, Glen, & Steve:

Scott Morrison – smorrisonhorns@gmail.com

Steve Skillman – sbskillman@yahoo.com

Glenn Sutt – kavic@comcast.net

Steve Vance – 916-914-5898

Photos supplied by the CLF with copy by Heinz Ahlers.

2015 CLF Auction Item: Early Longhunter Knife & Sheath by Heinz Ahlers & Joe Seabolt

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

Early Longhunter Knife & Sheath by Heinz Ahlers & Joe Seabolt

The classic knife of the early American frontier, the single edged longhunters knife, was the working tool of the rifleman. Although these knives were often made from imported butcher knives, the longhunter frequently sought out the products of the skilled frontier smith for a knife that was a bit stouter and had a finer steel blade than the cheap butcher knives. The longknife and tomahawk were the everyday working tools of the frontier hunter and doubled as weapons in a close fight. Much was expected of these blades and some additional expense was warranted.  

This knife by Joe Seabolt and Heinz Ahlers is an early style half-tang antler handled knife from with a 9-1/2 inch blade and a 14-1/2 inch overall length. The blade shows the combination of butcher knife and dirk shapes incorporated in the longknife profile with the classic choil ahead of the grip accommodating the wide blade. This blade has been hand forged from 1084 high carbon steel, and hand filed. Carefully edge hardened and edge tempered, the tempering line clearly shows on the blade. The antler handle is attractive and useful. The half tang is the most common configuration for these knives.  

A simple leather sheath with a brain tanned thong for securing it under a belt or sash accompanies the knife.

This is a finely crafted longhunters belt knife, Simple, efficient, well balanced and capable of all the tasks capable of all the tasks of the hunter scout, this is a classic frontier working knife. All Joe Seabolt knives will shave hair before leaving the shop.  

Heinz Ahlers' & Joe Seabolt's contact information is:

Heinz Ahlers
heinzahlers@zoomtown.com
513-207-2823

Joe Seabolt
jseabolt665@gmail.com
513-722-4321

Photos supplied by the CLF with copy by Heinz Ahlers.

2015 CLF Auction Item: The Charles Parkingham Hooper Adams Hunting Bag by John Weeks

The 2015 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fund Raising Auction will take place on Friday, August 14th at 5:00PM in Lexington, Kentucky at the Annual CLA Meeting and Show. The Grand Ball Room - Lexington Convention Center, 400 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.

The Charles Parkingham Hooper Adams Hunting Bag by John Weeks

Through genealogy research, we found that my fifth great grandfather, Charles Adams 1745-1780, a farmer in northwest North Carolina, was a member of the North Carolina Rangers. He fought in Revolutionary War battles in the southern theater from 1776 until his death in 1780. He served with General Griffith Rutherford during the Cherokee Campaign and with Captain William Lenoir's Company in both the Surry and Wilkes County Militia.

This hunting bag reflects the design that he might have carried as a horse trooper. I researched the Revolutionary period and found what I wanted in Jim Webb's book, Hunting Pouches, Powder Horns And Accoutrements of Southern Appalachia. I have also hand fashioned some accoutrements that could have been in the bag and passed to his surviving family. This bag and accoutrements were made to honor my 5th Great grandfather Charles Parkingham Hooper Adams and his service during the Revolutionary War.

The bag is constructed of 3-4 ounce vegetable tanned cow hide, hand sewn with waxed linen thread, dyed, then hand rubbed with beeswax and bear oil daubing.The flat horn was purchased from William "Bill" Smith of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Paula Hoagland of "Eighteenth Century HandWovens" of Hillsboro, Indiana created the hand woven strap. 

The other simple collection of accoutrements include items that would have been passed down to a grandson with the addition of new things needed for a squirrel rifle. I made the ball tube with a crossed flag and sword to reflect my grandfather's war service, a leather powder funnel with a goose quill and an attached clamshell button, a small deer antler powder measure and pick beaded with red white heart beads.

I benefit daily from my CLA membership by reviewing leather-working examples, examining others techniques and researching historical items. The CLA sales site has opened new markets for my handmade items. My contribution to The Live Auction is a way for me to show my appreciation and help CLA reach its goals.

John L. Weeks' contact information is:

jlwweeks@gmail.com

989-390-3676

Photos supplied by the CLF with copy by Jack Weeks.