Antique Folk Art Powder Horn with Carved Heart, Diamonds, Merman, and Birds antique whisk brush with terrific combination of typefaces

with terrific combination of typefaces and

snake-like one is a very old drafting brush

while simultaneously fortified through their (smiling) presences

but he is in the set

Antique Folk Art Powder Horn with Carved Heart, Diamonds, Merman, and Birds antique whisk brush with terrific combination of typefacesNot easy to capture in photos, and takes close looking in person to fully appreciate its attributes, but I love this thing. It's a 19th century folk art decorated powder horn, used for storing and carrying gun powder (end plug clearly long gone.) With a raised heart and a pair of diamonds carved into narrow end, and a merman mermaid of sorts etched into the surface just below, with the corners of diamonds doubling as horns, making the creature look