Mediaeval post horn

[Ya Sam]

Most probably discussed before but...

In this passage from Siegel's article (thank you you know who) Pynchon says 
that a post horn identical to that depicted in Lot 49 was a symbol of some 
kind of mediaeval post system. He even checked it in a library. So did 
anyone actually come across that mediaeval symbol as well as the postal 
organisation? I tried the google :) and didn't find anything.


"“You know the w.a.s.t.e. horn in The Crying of Lot 49? The symbol of the
secret message service? Every weirdo in the world is on my wave length. You
cannot understand the kind of letters I get. Someone wrote to tell me that 
the
very same horn was the symbol of a private mail system in medieval times. I
checked it out at the library. It’s true. But I made it up myself before the 
book
was ever published, before I ever got that letter.”"

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