Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn bowling pin shaped dish Found in New Hampshire

Found in New Hampshire

Such a fantastically graphic paint job on this old wooden cutout boxer

I don't know much about this large

and really wonderful

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

Late 18th Century Primitively Scrimshawed Horn bowling pin shaped dish Found in New HampshireThis 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