Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn bowling pin shaped dish I don't know much about

I don't know much about this large

I'm not sure the maker but surely 1950s-60s or so

maybe better

gentle strength

Which guard its body like a fence / of moving darts in ev'ry sense

Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn bowling pin shaped dish I don't know much aboutThis 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