Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch I love these old ring

I love these old ring toss toys

) rising from the opening of the shoe

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

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)

Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn finch I love these old ringThis 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