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Post horn
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The post horn is a valveless cylindrical brass instrument with a cupped mouthpiece. The instrument was used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used by postilions
German post horn (19th century)
German post horn (19th century)
Post horn
Post horn
Post horn logo from Sweden
Post horn logo from Sweden
Postilion
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A postilion or postillion is a person who rides a harnessed horse that is pulling a horse-drawn vehicle such as a coach, rather than driving from behind as a coachman does. This method is used for pul
Post horn
…brass instrument with a cupped mouthpiece. The instrument was used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The post horn is sometimes confused with the coach horn, and even though the two types of horn served the same principal…
This coach, designed without a driver's seat, is guided by a postilion riding the left-side horse.
This coach, designed without a driver's seat, is guided by a postilion riding the left-side horse.
Postilions control the horses drawing the Queen's coach at the State Opening of Parliament, London 2015.
Postilions control the horses drawing the Queen's coach at the State Opening of Parliament, London 2015.
Postilions at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan, 2004
Postilions at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan, 2004
ANZAC horses and postilions struggle to move a gun, Passchendaele, 1917, by Harold Septimus Power.
ANZAC horses and postilions struggle to move a gun, Passchendaele, 1917, by Harold Septimus Power.