Carpets

This coach horn came from a pub in the wilds of Shropshire, England. The horn was used in the 19th century to announce the arrival of a coach at a town or at a country inn in England. These horns were carried in long wicker bsaskets mounted on the back of the coach...This one belonged to the local pub where a flock of 70 year old one-toothed Welsh Hill Sheep Farmers assemble for social discourse and polite political conversation with the other locals. The publican indicated that his father acquired it early 20th century.

A gentle lady - who only infrequentIy attended such conversations in the pub - talked the publican into auctioning the horn on eBay to raise funds for Kosovo in the spring of 1999. There was a lot of 'social discourse' that night that night and ultimately the gentleman finally agreed to part with the horn for a good cause. I was the lucky winner.

Apparently the "dints" on the bell occurred during a slight difference of opinion in 1944 between some of the RAF boys stationed at a nearby airfield had a slight difference of opinion with some of the American Yank aircrews who were also stationed nearby. It is not clear how the horn figured in the ensuing discussions, but hopefully these common allies fared better than the horn! Such is the usual outcome of excessive 'social discourse'. The horn has since been restored to ts former glory- but there enough scars remaining to remind one of its colorful story.

It is 4 feet long and made entirely of copper, with brass fittings and mouthpiece. there is a brass ferrel in the middle to allow disassembly into two pieces for ease of transport.