Horn scales and pressed horn scales

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It has been discussed perhaps before but there is some confusion as to horn scales which are pieces of cow horn shaped and polished as a scale and PRESSED horn scales that are horn scales heated up and placed in a die with designs, etc.
Mr Jim Taylor a well know knife maker wrote the following article for the Oregon Knife Club publication. Perhaps some have not seen it before, I had not. The whole article is very interesting but the description of pressing horn is about half way through the article.
Horns, Bones, Tusks, Antlers and Hooves
This article made it a lot clearer to me as to how scales were made. It is also amazing as to the pure volume of horn that was used in England at that time.