nice find Tengu , I am after a nice pair myself want to make a hat hanger
And you don't need large antlers for that hat rack - altho a big set is kind of showy.
I picked up two "hat racks" at an old farm auction. They cronicle one of the kid's deer hunting sucess somewhere back in the 1940's and 1950's. One antler from each deer was screwed onto a 2 foot long board. Just one antler from each "kill". A long wood-screw passed through the board from the back, and into the end of each antler. There are 4 on each board, and those boards are just long enough to fit over a door or window frame.
Nobody at the farm auction wanted them because most are from spike or small bucks, and not matched pairs. But I have them up above two doors in my kitchen, and with hats hanging on them as intended.
I've also made a few similar ones using old wainscoating boards. One does have a small matched pair of antlers in the middle with single tines on both sides, but most were made with single un-matched tines. The friends who I gave them to really like them. It's a simple "hunting" item from those early days of the 1900's.
Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands