Cornucopia: The World of Dan Super

Cornucopia

The World of Dan Super

The World of Dan Super

Cornucopia: The World of Dan Super

On view Fall 2022

Foltz Fine Art is pleased to present an exceptional collection of 90 objects carved out of longhorns, created between 1890 and 1940, by early native Houstonian Dan Super (1873 1953). The objects range from small bookmarks and bolo ties to back scratchers and pin cushions to a wide array of wildlife sculptures and to the pièce de résistance– a childsize carved chair comprised of 51 ornately carved longhorns. Super’s work is highly detailed, naturalistic and transcends the realm of folk art into fine art with his superb level of execution.

Born into two pioneering Houston families, Daniel Super, Jr. was born in Houston in 1873. His father owned stock yards, D. Super and Brothers Co., providing the young Super with ready access to his raw material. At the age of six, Dan Super carved his first drawing into a piece of the horn of a Texas Longhorn. Over the next 56 years, he made utilitarian pieces like pencil cups, pin cushions, and back-scratchers, realistic replicas of animals and birds, and imaginative carvings of elegant nudes.

As Super’s hobby progressed, he started focusing on fewer, but more detail-intensive works, rather than speedily turning them out. While prolific during his lifetime, receiving notoriety with several museum exhibitions, Super never actively sold his works. Instead, he gifted them to individuals, or, often, created as gifts for family members.

The artist’s family collection remains intact in large part to the incredible stewardship taken by Super’s great grandson, Robert Nelson, who sadly passed away before this exhibition reached fruition. It is because of his dutiful care and preservation of these works that Dan Super’s legacy will remain.

-Sarah Foltz, Foltz Fine Art Houston, Texas

DAN SUPER A CORNUCOPIA

by Jay Wehnert

The art of Dan Super is a bounty. To experience this lifetime collection of his extraordinary carved-horn creations is a rare gift. We are given the opportunity to be moved by the beauty of his work, the precision of his craft, and the entirety of his creative vision. We are served a glimpse into one man’s lifelong creative pursuit and the power of art to nourish not only the artist, but ourselves.

Born in Houston, Texas in 1873, Dan Super’s life seems quintessentially Texan. His family was in the cattle business, providing the young Dan his early exposure to the interdependent world of man and animals. Indeed, as a boy his first carved creations were instruments called “blow horns,” traditionally carved steer horns that function as rudimentary trumpets for ranch hand communication. During his long life, Super’s own professional endeavors reflected the ever-changing nature of Houston in the first half of the Twentieth Century. He continued in the family cattle business, operated a retail grocery, and worked in the growing oil industry. However, it appears that his appreciation of the connectedness of man and nature was fundamental and found expression through his childhood hobby turned ardent artistic journey.

The horn carvings of Dan Super hold a rarified place in the parallel worlds of craft and art. They are very much in the traditions of men’s handcrafts, such as whittling, scrimshaw and the notched wood carving practice known as

“tramp art,” which were popular at the turn of the last century. Everyday artisans used common or “make do” materials to fashion both utilitarian and decorative objects, often for loved ones or trade. Some exceptional makers, such as Dan Super, transcended the constraints of their modest mediums and the practical purposes of their chosen craft. Through dedication and expansive creativity, these makers took the most mundane materials and found within them infinite possibilities for expression; further, combined with vision and verve, their craft came to inhabit the world of art. Dan Super’s carved horn creations exemplify this experience. His earliest creations were traditional and serviceable. As an adult his creations eclipsed these beginnings and came to involve so much more. The use of horns both directed and challenged his desire to express himself. His carvings made manifest far reaching themes of history, nature, spirituality and personal narrative, along with an ever–evolving exploration of his chosen materials’ limits. Dan Super described himself

as having “never had a lesson.” As a self-taught artist, Super’s creations were not constrained by the expectations of the conventional art world, allowing him to explore and develop his art in unexpected and eccentric ways. His work created self-contained worlds that were simultaneously rooted in his familial place of Texas and the culture of the West, and full of personal meaning. Super was never interested in selling his art, preferring to follow his own inspirations, not the marketplace.

This current exhibition of Dan Super’s carvings affords us the rich opportunity to experience his creative output as a whole. The effect is overwhelming as each piece reveals its individual complexities and the marvels of its carving. Dan Super’s understanding of the fundamental connectedness of man and the natural world is central. His love of family and history is another continual thread through his work. A natural highlight of the exhibition is the Longhorn Child’s Chair. With its fifty-one densely carved horns and tooled leather seat, it is a tour de force of Super’s lifetime work and is certainly a showstopper. Delving further into the collection reveals individual carvings that seem to perfectly embody all of Super’s creative and artistic impulses into a unified whole. His Powder Horn Cup with Artist Portrait, ca.1915 is a prime example. Super’s use of this natural indigenous material to fashion a decorative cup is rich in tradition and history dating back centuries. The carvings that envelop the cup include deer, dogs, a fox hunting scene and an entwining snake, all abundantly illustrating aspects of man’s connectedness with nature. The composition forms an elegantly lush and flowing narrative, and central to it all is Dan Super himself, both in finely rendered

portraiture and boldly scripted signature. It is a masterpiece.

Dan Super’s horn creations are bountiful with inspiration,composition, skillandbeauty.Like a true cornucopia or “horn of plenty,” Super’s works reflect the riches of his mastery of material, technique, form, and imagery. Each carving, large or small, is a full serving.

Jay Wehnert is the director of Intuitive Eye, a Houston arts organization he founded in 2011. An independent curator, writer, collector, educator, and collaborator in a wide range of venues, he has curated shows for galleries and institutions in Texas,writtenforexhibitioncataloguesandotherpublications as well as his own website, presented at conferences, and worked directly with artists to present their art in a variety of settings. In 2018, he published Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars through Texas A&M University Press.

Dan E. Super, Jr. (1873 – 1953)

Dan Super had the eye of a sculptor, envisioning and then creating hundreds of objects from the elongated form of a Texas Longhorn’s tusk. At the age of six, Dan Super carved his first drawing into a piece of the horn of a Texas Longhorn. Over the next 56 years, he made utilitarian pieces like pencil cups, pin cushions, and backscratchers, realistic replicas of animals and birds, and imaginative carvings of elegant nudes. While these carvings resemble the traditional art of scrimshaw, carvings from whale bone, we’ve not been able to identify another carver who used the Texas Longhorn as his material.

“My work is done with an ordinary pocketknife, hacksaw file and rasp,” Super wrote in 1937. He used the horn in every way conceivable; whole, allowing the shape to define the object he was making, flattened to make mosaic or inlay work. He incised and pierced it, and carved in the round. His own hands polished the horn to a sheen.

Daniel Super, Jr. was born in Houston on August 22, 1873. His father owned stock yards, D. Super and Brothers Co., providing the young Super with ready access to his raw material. Throughout his life, he worked in the businesses key to the identity and success of young, booming Houston; cattle, oil, real estate and rail. In 1896 he married Lula, and took over the family business, expanding it to include a grocery. He closed the company in 1912 and got into the oil business and in 1917 he went to work for T&N O Railroad, from which he retired in 1926. He died on June 1, 1953.

Super loved music and played 23 different instruments including a violin he carved. His most avid hobby was the longhorn carving collection, for which he received praise and acclaim. “I believe everyone shoud have a hobby, and I get lots of pleasure out of mine.” When the collection was displayed for the first time in 1926, it was insured for $2,000. Super would not accept money for his sculptures, although he gave many pieces away, including a hunting horn he sent to Teddy Roosevelt. Many of the carvings were made as gifts for his family and bear the names of his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.

Exhibition History

2015-16, Made in America: Craft Icons of the 50 States, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA 2001, It Aint Braggin’ If It’s True, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX

1998-99, Making Myth of Texas Junk: Dan Super, Emil Schneegass and D.D. Smalley, organized by The Orange Show Foundation at The Art League of Houston, Texas; Austin College, Sherman, TX 1996, Dan Super: Superb Craftsman of Horn, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, TX 1947, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX 1937, Third Annual Hobby Show, Houston Recreation Department, Houston, TX 1936, The “He Man” Hobby Show, Houston Recreation Department, Houston, TX 1936, Cattleman’s Convention, TX 1920, Leopold & Price, Houston, TX

Public Collections

Theodore Roosevelt’s Collection, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York (image below)

Sources

“Amarillo Man’s Father Carves Rare Horn Art”, Amarillo Sunday News, July 15, 1936. “Beauty from a Horn”, Louise Berthold, The Houston Chronicle Magazine, April 13, 1947.

“Best of the West: Carving a Niche” by Ellen Rosenbush Methner. Southwest Art, July 1996, page 26. With Illustrated fish sculpture.

“Dan Super: Superb Craftsman of Horn”, Valerie Loupe Olsen, Orange Show, Winter 1995-96, Newsletter.

“Dan Super’s Carved Longhorn Chair”, San Diego Magazine, October 9, 2015.

“He’s an Old Cowhand and He Whittles Grand”, John Turner, The Houston Chronicle, February 9, 1939.

“Horns Aplenty”, Patricia C. Johnson, The Houston Chronicle, July 11, 1996.

“Horns of High Tone Quality Are Carved by Houstonian”, The Houston Chronicle, April 20, 1941.

“Houston Windows Made Attractive for Ranch Visitors”, The Houston Post, March 17, 1920.

Seriff, Suzanne. It Ain’t Braggin’ If It’s True, exhibition catalogue. Austin, TX: The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 2001. The Orange Show Foundation. Making Myth of Texas Junk: Dan Super, Emil Schneegass and D.D. Smalley, organized by at The Art League of Houston, Texas, 1998-99.

Theodore Roosevelt’s Collection, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York

“Unique Display of Objects Carved from Horn of Cows Displayed in Store Windows”, Amarillo News, March 12, 1926.

The WThe World of Dorld of Dan Superan Super

Photograph of Dan Super with horn carvings. Circa 1936. Litterst Commercial Photo Co., Houston, Texas.

FURNITURE

Dan Super

DS-1: Carved longhorn child's chair; 51 carved horns, with tooled leather seat, c. 1915 carved longhorn 29 x 25 x 24 in

Exhibition History: 2015-16, Made in America: Craft Icons of the 50 States, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA 2001, It Aint Braggin’ If It’s True, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX 1998-99, Making Myth of Texas Junk: Dan Super, Emil Schneegass and D.D. Smalley, organized by The Orange Show Foundation at The Art League of Houston, Texas; Austin College, Sherman, TX 1996, Dan Super: Superb Craftsman of Horn, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, TX

UTILITARIAN OBJET D'ARTE

Walking Cane

Towel Rack

Scratcher

Pen

Openers

Cigar Holder

Pencil Cup

Match Holder

Pin Cusion

Napkin Ring

Scarf / Bolo Tie

DanSuper

DS-18: carved centennial pin cushion holder (with portrait of Sam Houston, covered wagon, homestead, ox, trees),c.1936 carved horn 3.62 x2.62 in

DanSuper

DS-9: inlayed horn letter opener with pen tip end,c.1915 carvedhorn

6.75x0.50in

DanSuper

DS-10: inlayed horn fountain pen barrell,c.1915 carvedhorn

5x0.50in

DanSuper

DS-8: shriner masonic ceremonial sword with star (letter opener),c.1915 carvedhorn

6.12x1in

DanSuper

DS-7: shriner scimitar sword (letter opener),c.1915 carvedhorn

6.50x1in

DanSuper

DS-14: blonde horn bookmark (with Yvonne, star, 1936),1936 carved horn

4.50 x1in

DanSuper

DS-13: blonde horn bookmark with star,c.1915 carvedhorn 4.75x0.87in

DanSuper

DS-15: blonde horn bookmark with initials WDS and star,c.1920 carvedhorn

4.75 x1.12 in

DanSuper

DS-12: blonde horn bookmark with Masonic designs,c.1915 carvedhorn

4.87x1.25in

DanSuper

DS-23: carved elephant scarf / bolo ring,c.1915 carvedhorn 3.62x0.75in

DanSuper

DS-27: carved horn scarf ring (deer head),c. 1915 carved horn 2.12 x1in

DanSuper

DanSuper

DS-26: carved horn scarf / bolo ring (steer),c.1915 carvedhorn 2.62x1.25in

DS-25: carved horn nude woman scarf ring,c. 1915 carved horn 3.50 x1in

DanSuper

DS-24: carved horn shaped scarf / bolo ring,c. 1915 carved horn 3.25 x1in

DanSuper

DS-6: inlayed horn back scratcher (dark brown hand),c.1915 carvedhorn 13.25 x1in

DanSuper

DS-2: inlayed horn walking cane,c.1915 carvedhorn 32.75x5in

DS-5: inlayed horn back scratcher (blonde hand, horn on end),c.1915 carvedhorn 16x1.25 in

DanSuper

DS-4: inlayed horn back scratcher (light brown hand),c.1915 carvedhorn 15.75 x1in

DanSuper

DS-3: inlayed horn towel rack, wall mount,c.1915 carvedhorn 19.50x5.75in

DanSuper

DS-17: carved horn pencil cup (with "Dan Super, Houston, Tex, dogs and buck),c.1915 carvedhorn

3.50x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-16: carved horn pencil cup (with artist portrait, elk and dogs),c.1915 carvedhorn 2.75x2.25in

DanSuper

DS-20: carved horn match holder with artist portrait and brands, wall mount,c.1915 carvedhorn 4.50x4.50in

DanSuper

DS-19: carved horn match holder with artist portrait, wall mount,c.1915 carvedhorn 7x3.50in

DanSuper

DS-21: carved horn wall plaque (with artist portrait, longhorn, trees, "Dan Super, Houston, Tex, Born Aug 22, 1873),c.1915 carvedhorn 10.25 x3in

DanSuper

DS-28: carved horn belt napkin ring ("Super"),c.1915 carvedhorn 2.12x1.87in

DanSuper

DS-22: large carved horn pin cushion and matcholder (with horse and rider, dogs and trees),c.1915 carved horn 11x3.50 in

DanSuper

DS-62: centiennial "1836 - 1936" dark carved horn sculpture (candle and matches holder), top horn american indian head with braids, covered wagon, oxen, buffalo, bottom horn Houston, nude woman,c.1936 carvedhorn 9x4x12in

SCULPTURAL OBJECTS

DanSuper

DS-84: carved powder horn on three horn legs; main horn depicts pastoral farm scene with horse and rider, dog, deer and dog hunting scene, with trees encircling the rim of cup; two legs show homestead scene in landscape, third leg has coiled snake form,c.1915 carvedhorn 13.50x10x6in

DanSuper

DanSuper

DS-81: carved and pierced horn vessels on horn base; art nouveau stylized nudes standing with trees,c.1915 carvedhorn 8x3x3.50in

DanSuper

DS-77: Vertical blond carved and pierced horn sculpture with nude women in tree, on wood base with star.,c.1915 CarvedHornonwoodbase 14x7in

DanSuper

DS-79: small carved powder horn on silver plate stand WD Sutherland, hunting scene, locomotive, masonic buckle with emblem, star enclosure,c.1920 carvedhorn 4.50x7.50x3in

DanSuper

DS-78: Vertical blond carved horn sculpture with hunt scene (deer, fox with bird in mouth, man on horseback, dogs); inllay section above base, vase carved with hunting scene with stags and dogs,c.1915

CarvedHorn 14x8in

DanSuper

DS-82: carved and pierced horn drinking cup on horn base with inlay; soaring eagle over landscape with trees, circling rim,c 1915 carvedhorn 7.50 x3x3in

DanSuper

DS-83: carved and pierced powder horn on wood base, cup with with artist portrait, deer and dogs and fox hunting scene, snake coiled around end; "Dan Super" inlaid on base,c.1915 carvedhornonpaintedwoodbase 95x5.50 x4.40 in

DanSuper

DS-80: carved horn drinking cup on stand; portrait of artist, carved ranching emblems, longhorn, saddle, riding gear, gun in holster; around base - "Texas" with image of spurs and rope; horn inlay at neck,c.1915 carvedhorn

6.75x2.75x2.75in

BLOWING & POWDER HORNS

DanSuper

DS-67: carved and pierced blowing horn (with deer, man on horseback, dogs, ducks, man on bucking bronc, foxes, artist portrait with shriner fez),c.1915 carvedhorn

3.50x14in

DanSuper

DS-76: Blond carved blowing horn with Masonic designs, hunting scene with man on horseback, dogs, dead stags and stumps."WD Sutherland" on base.,c.1920 CarvedHorn 11.50x4in

DanSuper

DS-69: Intricate carved and pierced blowing horn with artist's portrait, nude woman, possum, squirrel, dog. Carved "Super", Top blond, bottom dark horn.,c.1915 carvedhorn 11x3in

DanSuper

DS-71: Blond carved blowing horn, with hunt scene of dogs chasing stag on bottom; dark horn tip.,c.1915 CarvedHorn 10x3in

DanSuper

DS-72: Carved blowing horn ("D. Super" man on branded XN horse hunting scene with dogs and dead stag and artist's portrait).,c.1915 CarvedHorn 11x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-68: Carved blond, blowing horn with artist's portrait and fox; carved landscape on horn end.,c.1915 carvedhorn 12x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-75: Dark carved blowing horn with blond rim (hunting scene with Stag doe, dogs and fox).,c.1915

CarvedHorn

10x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-74: Dark and blond carved blowing horn (with snake and nude woman, stags, fox, dogs).,c.1915

CarvedHorn

9.50x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-73: Dark and blond carved blowing horn (with stag, doe and dog),c.1915 CarvedHorn

10x2.50in

DanSuper

DS-66: large blonde blowing horn, with dogs chasing stag and fox with bird in mouth,c.1915 carvedhorn

4.50x16in

DanSuper

DS-70: Carved blond blowing horn, with artist portrait, longhorn, XN brand, lasso around portrait.,c.1915

CarvedHorn

11x3in

WILDLIFE SCULPTURES

DanSuper

DS-43: large carved horn fish on base,c.1915 carvedhornonpaintedwoodbase 14x7.50in

DanSuper

DS-44: large carved horn frog with dark head,c.1915 carvedhorn 10x3.75in

DanSuper

DS-45: large carved horn frog with blonde head,c.1915 carvedhorn 8x4.25in

DanSuper

DS-46: carved horn alligator on base,c.1915 carvedhornonwoodbase 13x4.12in

DanSuper

DS-65: large blonde carved horn eagle with removable wings on large horn (bird has snake in claws) cowboy roping steer with XN brand and rattelsnake tail around horn point, fox on a log (Dan Super, Houston, Tex), bird can be removed from horn,c. 1915 carved horn 13 x25 x17 in

DanSuper

DanSuper

DS-60: three blonde carved horn birds on a horn,c.1915 carvedhorn

x10.50in

DanSuper

DS-61: two blonde horn carved birds standing on a horn instrument (with masonic sword, sphynx and star),c.1915 carvedhorn

x12in

DanSuper

DS-88- Dark carved horn sculpture with 5 birds perched on top,c.1915 carvedhorn

x14.50 x6.50 in

DanSuper

DS-63: 5 blonde horn carved birds on blonde detailed horn (tree, dog, fox) on horn base with ducks, water four foxes,c.1915 carved horn

x13.50 in

DanSuper

DS-89:Smallcarvedhornsculpturewith2hummingbirds

,c.1915

DanSuper

DS-59: dark carved horn sculpture with two birds on horn, face carved into horn with inlayed stones on wood base,c.1915 carvedhorn 6.87 x8.50 in

DanSuper

DS-56: carved horn wall mount (bird and nest on horn),c.1915 carved horn 5.50 x5in

DanSuper

DS-57: blonde carved horn scissor-tailed flycatcher on horn, wall mount,c.1915 carvedhorn 6.75x7.50in

DanSuper

DS-31: carved light horn standing roadrunner (looking down),c.1915 carved horn 7x3.50 in

DanSuper

DanSuper

DanSuper

DS-30: carved light horn standing single bird,c.1915 carvedhorn 7x4in

DS-32: small standing black and white carved horn bird,c.1915 carvedhorn 4 x 3 in

DS-33: small standing light and dark carved horn bird (holes in feet looking up),c.1915 carvedhorn

4x3.50in

DanSuper

DS-85-Blond carved horn Roadrunner, c. 1915 carved horn 6.60 x12in

DanSuper

DS-34: extra small standing carved dark horn bird,c.1915 carved horn 3.25 x2in

DanSuper

DS-36: extra small standing carved horn light blonde bird,c.1915 carved horn 3x1.50 in

DanSuper

DS-35: extra small standing carved horn dark blonde bird,c.1915 carved horn 3.50 x1.50 in

DanSuper

DS-29: carved dark brown horn standing single bird,c.1915 carvedhorn 7x4in

DanSuper

DS-52: dark carved horn single bird on carved base (cherry design on base),c.1915 carvedhorn 8.50x7.50in

DanSuper

DS-54: blonde carved horn single bird on horn cup (basket),c.1915 carved horn 9x5in

DanSuper

DS-53: dark carved vulture on blonde and brown horn cup, felted bottom,c.1915 carvedhorn 7.50x6in

DanSuper

DS-48: carved horn bird perched on a log base,c.1915carved horn 4.50 x7x6in

DanSuper

DS-55: carved horn heron on carved base resembling logs, c.1915 carved horn 8.50x5.50in

DanSuper

DS-49: two carved horn birds facing opposite directions on log,c.1915 carvedhorn 7.50 x5in

DanSuper

DS-50: carved horn blonde Long-billed Curlew with long beak on vertical log,c.1915 carvedhornonwoodbase 9.50x3.50in

DanSuper

DS-47: large dark carved horn bird with long beak on horn base,c.1915 carvedhorn 7.50 x2.50 in

DanSuper

DS-51: carved horn blonde parrot standing on log,c. 1915 carved horn on wood base 8.25 x5.50 in

DanSuper

DS-90- Blond carved horn bird,c.1915 carvedhorn 3.50x6x3in

DanSuper

DS-37: carved horn standing penguin,c.1915 carvedhorn 2.62x0.87in

DanSuper

DanSuper

DS-86- Blond carved and etched horn bird,c. 1915 carved horn 6x7.50 x5in

DS-39: extra small carved dark horn bird on base (large beak),c.1915 carved horn 2.62 x0.75 in

DanSuper

DS-38: extra small carved dark horn bird on base,c. 1915 carved horn 2.75 x0.30 in

DanSuper

DS-41-42: assorted small and medium carved horn miniature birds,c.1915 carved horn

1x0.50 in

DanSuper

DS-40: assorted large carved horn miniature birds (24 total),c.1915 carvedhorn

2x0.50in

A Cornucopia:

The World of Dan Super

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Dan Super

DS-1: Carved longhorn child's chair; 51 carved horns, with tooled leather seat, c. 1915 carved longhorn 29 x 25 x 24 in

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Dan Super DS-2: inlayed horn walking cane, c. 1915 carved horn 32.75 x 5 in

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Dan Super DS-3: inlayed horn towel rack, wall mount, c. 1915 carved horn 19.50 x 5.75 in

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4. Dan Super DS-4: inlayed horn back scratcher, c. 1915 carved horn 15.75 x 1 in

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Dan Super DS-5: inlayed horn back scratcher, c. 1915 carved horn 16 x 1.25 in

6. Dan Super DS-6: inlayed horn back scratcher, c. 1915 carved horn 13.25 x 1 in

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Dan Super

DS-7: shriner scimitar sword (letter opener), c. 1915 carved horn

6.50 x 1 in

Dan Super DS-8: shriner masonic ceremonial sword with star (letter opener), c. 1915 carved horn 6.12 x 1 in

Dan Super DS-9: inlayed horn letter opener with pen tip end, c. 1915 carved horn

Dan Super DS-10: inlayed horn fountain pen barrell, c. 1915 carved horn 5 x 0.50 in

Dan Super DS-11: horn cigarette holder, c. 1915 carved horn 2.50 x 0.50 in

Dan Super DS-12: blonde horn bookmark with Masonic designs, c. 1915 carved horn 4.87 x 1.25 in

Dan Super

DS-57:

horn 6.75

Dan Super DS-58: blonde carved horn sculpture with four birds on horn base, c. 1915 carved horn 6.50 x 9 in

Dan Super

DS-59: dark carved horn sculpture with two birds on horn, c. 1915 carved horn 6.87 x 8.50 in

Dan Super DS-60: three blonde carved horn birds on a horn, c. 1915 carved horn 5 x 10.50 in

Dan Super DS-61: two carved birds standing on a horn, masonic sword, c. 1915 carved horn

8.50 x 12 in

Dan Super DS-62: Centennial "1836 - 1936" dark carved horn sculpture (cigar and matches holder), c. 1936 carved horn 9 x 4 x 12 in

Dan Super DS-63: 5 blonde horn carved birds on blonde detailed horn (tree, dog, fox) on horn base, c. 1915 carved horn 9 x 13.50 in

Dan Super

DS-64: large blonde carved horn bird on horn, "Houston" on base, c.1915 carved horn

12 x 9 x 18 in

Dan Super DS-65: large blonde carved horn bird (Dan Super, Houston, Tex), c. 1915 carved horn

13 x 25 x 17 in

Dan Super

DS-66: large blonde blow horn, with dogs chasing stag, c. 1915 carved horn 4.50 x 16 in

Dan Super

DS-67: carved and pierced blowing horn, highly detailed hunt scene, c. 1915 carved horn 3.50 x 14 in

Dan Super DS-69: Intricate carved and pierced blow horn with artist's portrait, nude, "Super", c. 1915 carved horn 11 x 3 in

Dan Super DS-68: Carved blow horn with artist's portrait and fox, c. 1915 carved horn 12 x 2.50 in

Dan Super DS-70: Carved blond blow horn, with artist portrait, longhorn, XLN brand, c. 1915 Carved Horn

11 x 3 in

Dan Super

DS-71: Blond carved blow horn, with hunt scene of dogs, c. 1915 Carved Horn

10 x 3 in

Dan Super DS-72: Carved blowing horn,"D. Super" with artist's portrait), c. 1915 Carved Horn

11 x 2.50 in

Dan Super DS-73: Carved blow horn (with stag, doe and dog), c. 1915 Carved Horn

10 x 2.50 in

Dan Super DS-74: Carved blowing horn (with snake and nude woman), c. 1915 Carved Horn 9.50 x 2.50 in

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Dan Super

DS-79: small carved powder horn on stand, locomotive, masonic, c. 1920 carved horn

4.50 x 7.50 x 3 in

Dan Super

DS-80: carved horn drinking cup on stand; portrait of artist "Texas", c. 1915 carved horn

6.75 x 2.75 x 2.75 in

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Dan Super DS-81: carved and pierced horn vessel, art nouveau stylized nudes, c. 1915 carved horn

8 x 3 x 3.50 in

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Dan Super

DS-82: carved and pierced horn drinking cup on base, c. 1915 carved horn

7.50 x 3 x 3 in

Dan Super DS-75: Dark carved blowing horn (hunting scene), c. 1915 Carved Horn 10 x 2.50 in Dan Super DS-76: Blond carved blowing horn with Masonic designs, c. 1920 Carved Horn 11.50 x 4 in Dan Super DS-77: Carved and pierced horn sculpture with nude women in tree, on wood base with star, c. 1915 Carved Horn on wood base 14 x 7 in

Dan Super DS-78: Carved horn sculpture with hunt scene; in-lay section above base, carved with hunting scene, c. 1915 Carved Horn 14 x 8 in

83.

Dan Super

DS-83: powder horn on wood base, cup with with artist portrait "Dan Super", c. 1915 carved horn on painted wood base

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Dan Super DS-84: carved powder horn on three horn legs c. 1915 carved horn

13.50 x 10 x 6 in

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Dan Super DS-85-Blond carved horn Roadrunner, c. 1915 carved horn

6.60 x 12 in

86.

Dan Super DS-86- Blond carved and etched horn bird, c. 1915 carved horn

6 x 7.50 x 5 in

Dan Super

DS-87- Inlay Crucifix, c. 1915 carved horn 10.50 x 5.50 x 4 in

Dan Super

DS-88- Dark carved horn sculpture with 5 birds perched on top, c. 1915 carved horn 8 x 14.50 x 6.50 in

Dan Super

DS-89: Small carved horn sculpture with hummingbirds, c. 1915 carved horn 4 x 6.50 x 2 in

Dan Super DS-90- Blond carved horn bird, c. 1915 carved horn 3.50 x 6 x 3 in

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