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Okay, so here's my wedding pic from 1976. I was married on my parents' 40 anniversary. My daughter carried this tradition to a 3rd generation when she got married on our 38th anniversary 2 weeks ago.

Awesome.
Congratulations to your daughter and son-in law too!
Gene

Rene,

Today I'd far rather be wearing YOUR wedding suit instead of mine! By the way, the guy standing behind your bride is wearing MY suit!

I take a back seat to no one when it comes to looking like an idiot!

George P.

phonogfp wrote:I take a back seat to no one when it comes to looking like an idiot!

Oh yeah? Top this.

What you don't see here are the wide bell-bottoms.

(Enough O/T, time to get back to horns!)

Rene:

Were you also into wine collecting back in the day?

Rick

^^^^
I was in the wine business from 1970 to 1993. I did everything from importing, wholesale, retail, managing a winery in Napa, doing PR for Ch. La Mission Haut Brion in Bordeaux before it was sold in 1983, writing for wine magazines -- I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Here is my recommendation: buy it for a price but then overcome any temptation to "improve" it. If the horn is rare, leave it in its original state. As soon as you touch that surface, regardless of how dilapidated it is, you then have lost its historical value. We've all seen the Antique Road Show, where the appraiser tells the owner that if the period piece had its original surface, it would be worth ten times the appraised value. That may be true but that misses the point. These objects are historical, cultural items. Price is not the bottom line. Why buy a 100 year old object and try to make it look new, for example, by repainting it? Sounds like my father. Out with the paint stripper, out with the sand paper, steel wool, and polyurethane. I've seen plenty of refinished items on these pages. They often look garish. Yes, sometimes restoration (or better conservation) is required, but that needs careful consideration--even for this horn. I could go on. Take repainted clock dials. Too many people can't resist repainting a faded name on the dial. They go over the faded name with fresh paint. Terrible. My recommendation: Buy it, leave it alone. And if you want, look for another, better one.

Thanks George,I am glad you posted that article re: The New Jersey Horn Co. I have one of these horns that I got this year. I had never seen one before and it has no markings on it; so, I'm glad to learn about it!

Chilesave, that's a beautiful horn! Congratulations - -

George P.