Art DeCamp Blowing Horn

 

Photography by Jan Riser.

2016 CLF Auction Item: Tansel Style Blowing Horn by Tim Albert and Tim Crosby

Tim Albert and Tim Crosby have teamed up to produce this outstanding blowing horn for the 2016 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Auction. Albert & Crosby are perrenial favorites and the auction would not be the same without them. Their auction offerings are always interesting and vary from a meticulous copy of a Daniel Boone horn and bag, through the Five Ears bag, and last years Desperate Times bag. This years offering is a unique and often neglected peiceof frontier hunting equipment, the hunting horn. The hunter on the borders of civilization relied on his dogs. Deer, bear, and small game like racoons, squirrels and rabbits are more easily hunted with dogs. And these far ranging general purpose hunting hounds are more easily called with a horn. Not your little brass fox chase horn but a large deep voiced horn to carry over a mile.

Making this horn special are both Tim Crosby's wonderful horn work and Tim Alberts Tansel inspired scrimshaw. Tim Crosby says "I do not think there is a Tansel blowing horn in existence. I took the tip from a Tansel horn, on the '06 cover of Muzzle Blasts and reversed it to make the mouthpiece. The band at the bell was copied from another Tansel horn that had a band at the butt with a single line turned in it." Tim Albert has captured the Tansel style of engraving on this fish mouthed horn with the Federal Eagle and the characteristic borders.

This is a great horn with style and charisma. Think how well it would look displayed with your rifle and hunting bag. And you dog will love it.

Tim Albert has also created a Youtube video on this horn, it can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgMLO4QsUA.

Tim Albert maybe contacted via email at huntingpouch@gmail.com, 

Tim Crosby can be contact via email at ccrosby004@columbus.rr.com.

Copy by Heinz Ahlers with photos supplied by CLF.

Blowing Horn by Tim Crosby

Photographed at the 2015 Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show by Jan Riser.

Blowing Horn by T.C. Albert

It's a big old blowing horn...also called a calling horn, or a hunting horn...

I picked it up at the last CLA show and carved it as you see...

Copy and photos supplied by T.C. Albert.

Blowing Horn by Ron Vail

This is a hunting/blowing/warning horn I recently finished. Very similar to the horn featured on page 191 of Jim Webb's "Sketches of Hunting Pouches Powder Horns and Accoutrements of Southern Appalachia.

Copy and photos supplied by Ron Vail.

Blowing Horn by Eric Armstrong

Among some horns I bought recently I found one that had a nice curve. I decided to make a blowing horn. This would be considered a presentation piece since the bell and the mouthpiece are turned from cherry. The bell is quite thin and wouldn't stand up to much use in the field. It does blow quite nicely and would be useful if they ever had fox hunting on TV.

Copy and photos supplied by Eric Armstrong.

Antique Blowing Horn

This horn belonged to the great, great, great grandfather of Bob Hills who went of the gold fields of North Carolina. He came back with this horn.

Photographed at the 2013 CLA Show by Jan Riser.

Fox Blowing Horn

A newly discovered fox horn found in Harrisonburg Virginia.  It is early 19th century, 18 1/2 inches long. It has one hole drilled at the base for a strap and a raised ring at the Spout. It has a really well defined running deer with 3 hounds chasing him. It has an 18th century style scroll 8 1/2 inches long with the owners name, W D SMITH. The letters are 1 1/2 inches tall. The deer on this horn resembles very closely the deer painted on the small cupboard door by Virginia master furniture make  Johannes Spitler of  Massunutten VA. The horn has a pleasing S-curve design. with original patina. The sound of it blowing is very deep and loud just as it had when made.  I am sure that the woodlands of Virginia heard this long ago.

Copy and photo supplied by Steve Boyleston.