Bugle. Bovine horn with metal bell, mounts and crest of a runing stag. Percy Bull catalogue (p.50): 'HUNTING HORN/mounted in brass, with a stag as ornament'. Index card reads: A cow's horn with three plated metal mounts and bell rim: the mouthpiece of ivory and deeply cupped with a narrow rim and fitted by a turned sleeve; a plated metal figure of a running stag imposed on the body. Presumably 19th century. Index card reads: Hunting horn. Anonymous. Bull collection. A cow's horn with three plated metal mounts and bell rim: the mouthpiece of ivory and deeply cupped with a narrow rim and fitted by a turned sleeve; a plated metal figure of a running stag imposed on the body. Pesumably 19th century. Much plating lost; bared metal discoloured, part lacquered and dirty: otherwise in good condition. Length overall: circa 320 mm; External bell diameter: 95 mm
423.121.21 End-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes without mouthpiece
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