Food-Grade Horns?

[zimmerstutzen]

there were ways to install a metal (pewter/silver/gold liner in the fancier horns. A few years ago saw a wood turner install a thin pewter liner in a wooden goblet he made. the outer edge had a bit of a roll over so he could crimp the liner in place. It seemed to me that not many would have such a thing anyway. Much treen ware was considered to have a useable life span and would be replaced with some regularity, whether every couple years or even more.

 

[tenngun]

I won a good very correct mug off a blanket shoot blanket one year. I dropped it several times and had it bounce, even one time off my flag stone floor in a cabin I had at the time. Then went to take it off my belt and dropped it from waist heights to grassy ground. Pop.
I loved that little cup.

 

[Elnathan]

A question for the experts:

I have heard of "salt horns" and they make sense to me but, did something such as a "rum horn" actually exist in the 18th and 19th century?

There are three shown on pages 196-7 in Johnston's Accouterments II. Those are only originals I have seen.

Good question though. I specifically noted those recently because I was wondering the same thing in the past.

 

[Artificer]

I appreciate the info. Couldn't find anything like it in my books, nor on the 18th Century Material Culture site.

Though horn cups/tumblers were common, I wonder if rum horns were not nearly as popular as other containers for rum?

Gus

 

[satx78247]

Understood. - Given the choice of BAD TASTE, possible leaching of substances and/or BURNING my mouth, I'll take my chances with breaking a mug.
(A spare mug doesn't take up a lot of extra space among what Julius Caesar called "the impedimentia of warriors".)

yours, satx

 

[Black Hand]

...I wonder if rum horns were not nearly as popular as other containers for rum?

Too small for my needs. I made a rum horn years ago, but it has seen very little use - easier to carry a full bottle...

 

[satx78247]

Back in the day, stoneware jugs came in sizes up to 3-4 gallons. - Anything much larger than that were too heavy to carry easily or handily pack on a mule/horse.
(For example, the old circa 1830 Clarke pottery near what is now Wascom, TX on the banks of the Sabine River evidently made jugs up to 10-12 gallons but it appears that those sizes weren't popular because of weight. = The 10 gallon size filled with likker weighed over 100 pounds.)

Nonetheless, that 3-4 gallons of booze rum would make quite a party in most camps.
(CHUCKLE)

yours, satx