I wonder if you're referring to a horn spoon, which was carved out of
cowhorn and used by early-day gold prospectors to clean riffles, measure
charges, etc. If it's made of bone ash it would be an assayer's cupel.
Ron Limbaugh
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From: "David Vaughan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 7:21 AM
Subject: Horn crucibles
> Does anyone know whether 'horn crucibles' are so named because they
> were used for smelting (?) horn silver or because they look sort of
> like a cow horn (mine is small with a pointed bottom), or perhaps for
> some other reason(s)? Is there a reference I could look in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Vaughan
> Anthropology Department
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
>
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