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Item: Hunting Horn Description: Removable mouthpiece Hallmark: London 1935 by Swaine & Adeney Ltd. Dimensions: 267mm long; 141g weight Comments: A top quality hunting horn by one of the main manufacturers of horns. This particular piece is unusual in that it has a reed fitted within the mouthpipe and the mouthpiece can be detached in order to change the reeds. It blows both easily and beautifully! The outside of the bell is engraved with the following inscription "E Lenton Stryng MFH, Derwent 1937". MFH is an abbreviation for Master of Fox Hounds. Mr Stryng was the the MFH of the Derwent Foxhounds hunt in North Yorkshire between 1937 and 1939. The bell is also stamped with the manufacturers name and their proud accolades of exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the International Exhibition of 1862. The company was first established in 1750 and continues today as Swaine Adeney Brigg celebrated maker of equestrian and leather goods.
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