Thread: old transparent honey yellow horn - what animal ?

Old razors sometimes have honey yellowish scales clear enough to see the blade thru- I'm wondering if this horn is from domestic cattle or wild ox or something ?

probably water buffalo horn

Bovine
Lots of cow horns range from black to honey even some white

This a Brahman bull Horn tip I have others that are black also
when cut thin it is translucent

Here is a thread about the processes:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...hing-horn.html
Here is a few pages of an old book about most anything chemical. Remember that most everything then was toxic!:
https://books.google.com/books?id=wS...20horn&f=false
You can somewhat navigate through the book by clicking page numbers on the second page, Look at the top of the first page to see "three....."
Another book is Henley's
https://books.google.com/books?id=8B...ey%27s&f=false
This book you may actually scroll to the page you want. See "Bone and Ivory."
page 430 for some of the formula's

Luck!
~Richard