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Bearcat - wow!

Just wow!

George P.

Excellent topic and great information Jerry, who doesn't like flower painted horns. Here's some Tea Tray horns I have. I especially like the black one with white roses. It's a smaller size measuring 22" long X 17" across and fits smaller cylinder machines well.
Larry C

Larry,

Thanks for showing your nice examples - the dogwood blossoms and pansies are unusual!

George P.

Thanks, Larry! Great examples, Hopefully, others will share theirs as well.

This horn has the Tea Tray Co. logo on it and a strong provenance as my grandparents bought it for their Edison Standard in 1907. That machine started my collecting back in 1963!

Dogwood, thanks for that information George. I couldn't put a name on that one. And we have a few Dogwoods that blossom every spring.
Larry C

At a CAPS meeting in recent years, a very talented member did a great presentation on restoring these horns. It would/should have been captured on the Zoom recording of the meeting. I will try to find the video section on Youtube when I have time.

He reasoned that the hand painted flowers would have been painted very quickly in as simple a manner as possible, and he set out to reverse engineer the painting process with these thoughts in mind. He reasoned that they were not painted all at once but rather in overlays applied a number of very quick simple steps. His results were very convincing. It was difficult for the untrained, inexperienced eye to notice any difference between his restorations and the originals.

Back in a while ... if I can find the video.

The name of the man who gave the talk was Steve Redman. Painting by formula rather than artistic license made perfect sense as you would get uniform results. Other people who attended that get together were Henk and Irene Noordermeer and myself.

edisonclassm wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2026 11:11 am The name of the man who gave the talk was Steve Redman. Painting by formula rather than artistic license made perfect sense as you would get uniform results. Other people who attended that get together were Henk and Irene Noordermeer and myself.

Thank you, Paul, and apologies for not mentioning your attendance that day as well. It was a great gathering.