The LaFleur Horn
This horn was commissioned by a black powder buffalo hunter from the Great Lakes. He gave me an old French map of the Great Lakes and I added the other elements.
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The LaFleur Horn
I had scraped the horn so thin you could see through it in places and so I didn’t dye the whole neck and spout. I left a little window so you could see how much powder you have left.
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Compass Rose
In a band below the engrailing I engraved the client’s name and his birthdate. Below that on the outside curve is a compass rose them the map and then another band arount the base of the horn which contains the words: “Until our Paths Cross Again.” Below that is a band with Fleur de Lis in it. The butt plug was turned from walnut.
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Buff’
The bottom two bands meet at this cameo with the image of an American Bison standing his ground in it. A couple of years later I spoke with this fellow again and he told me I’d be happy to know that this horn had two buffalo to its credit already.
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Long Hunter
I superimposed this illustration of a long hunter taken from a photograph over a part of the map.
