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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 2456006, member: 5066"]Some auction catalogs never seem to lack for superlatives when describing unique, top-of-the-line historic items. Once in a great while, the superlatives don’t seem adequate. That would be the case with Morphy Auctions’ three-day “doubleheader” firearms auction May 27-29 in Denver, Pennsylvania. The star of the sale was a magnificent early tomahawk, trumpeted as “arguably the most important, most historic, most well decorated and best known American tomahawk in existence.”</p><p><a href="https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-stories-of-annie-oakley-and-the-tomahawk/8029?fbclid=IwAR0VOShf_IW4iO_nERI5Vkj_ZJa-5YM8xXQMyfPfCzQ8-ayYUhi2QFlTNUY" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-stories-of-annie-oakley-and-the-tomahawk/8029?fbclid=IwAR0VOShf_IW4iO_nERI5Vkj_ZJa-5YM8xXQMyfPfCzQ8-ayYUhi2QFlTNUY" rel="nofollow">https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-stories-of-annie-oakley-and-the-tomahawk/8029?fbclid=IwAR0VOShf_IW4iO_nERI5Vkj_ZJa-5YM8xXQMyfPfCzQ8-ayYUhi2QFlTNUY</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Historic and unique tomahawk made for Lieutenant John McClellan by Fort Pitt armorer Richard Butler, carried by McClellan while he was part of the 1775 march through the wilderness of Maine led by Colonel Benedict Arnold, $664,200 (est. $300,000/500,000).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]265313[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]265312[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 2456006, member: 5066"]Some auction catalogs never seem to lack for superlatives when describing unique, top-of-the-line historic items. Once in a great while, the superlatives don’t seem adequate. That would be the case with Morphy Auctions’ three-day “doubleheader” firearms auction May 27-29 in Denver, Pennsylvania. The star of the sale was a magnificent early tomahawk, trumpeted as “arguably the most important, most historic, most well decorated and best known American tomahawk in existence.” [URL]https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-stories-of-annie-oakley-and-the-tomahawk/8029?fbclid=IwAR0VOShf_IW4iO_nERI5Vkj_ZJa-5YM8xXQMyfPfCzQ8-ayYUhi2QFlTNUY[/URL] Historic and unique tomahawk made for Lieutenant John McClellan by Fort Pitt armorer Richard Butler, carried by McClellan while he was part of the 1775 march through the wilderness of Maine led by Colonel Benedict Arnold, $664,200 (est. $300,000/500,000). [ATTACH=full]265313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]265312[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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