The Horners' Company Collection of Horn

Abstract

Beware the phrase ‘Someone really should…’. The first time I uttered these words I became involved in setting up a Fine Arts Society. (I am not a ‘committee-type’). The second time was in 1976, at the Annual Dinner of the Homers' Company, when I saw the Wardens' Horns in use for the first time and subsequently, encouraged and cajoled by my husband, I became a self-taught working horner. The third time was after unsuccessful attempts to persuade members of the Company who were keen photographers to record the Company's collection of horn stored at the Museum of London. So I bought myself an idiot-proof camera, and, with the permission of the Worshipful Company of Horners and the Museum's co-operation, set about recording almost 300 items.