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Author Topic: Major Coolness Horn  (Read 3896 times)

Online Rob DiStefano

Major Coolness Horn
« on: May 13, 2025, 06:10:13 PM »
Not my horn or my scrimming (wish I could do half as good as this'n!) but what a beauty ...

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Re: Major Coolness Horn
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2025, 07:47:29 PM »
Very nicely done.  Especially like the skeletal Brit.  Bravo!
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Re: Major Coolness Horn
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2025, 02:33:36 AM »

Dang that's nice!   :hairy  :applaud

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Offline Winter Hawk

Re: Major Coolness Horn
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2025, 03:18:46 PM »
Original woodcut by Benjamin Franklin in 1754:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution#/media/File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg

I wondered about the date being early for the Revolution, but that is when B.F. made it.

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Online Rob DiStefano

Re: Major Coolness Horn
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2025, 03:23:09 PM »
A lot was stirring in the colonies just before and during the Seven Years War (F&I).