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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 2458464, member: 5066&quot;]Yes is, read the article more thoroughly, threaded bowl</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dunno but this is interesting, they were on a military mission to capture Quebec Canada. I dimly remember from school we had visions of taking Canada/ the British out of the war by invading, didn&#039;t work out but very cool that this object was a part of that effort.</p><p>&quot;Lieutenant John McClellan also hailed from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and he carried the tomahawk during the Revolutionary War. He was under the command of Colonel Benedict Arnold on Arnold’s 1775 march through the wilderness of Maine on his way to the ill-fated siege of Quebec, and on that expedition McClellan met his end. Journals of the invasion record that McClellan contracted pneumonia, his bateau capsized, and he perished from the ordeal. Upon his passing the tomahawk was given to his brother Daniel, who continued on to Quebec, where he was captured by the British. A British officer seized the tomahawk along with the rest of Daniel’s possessions. Eventually it was taken to England and displayed as an object of curiosity from the wars in America. In later years, it passed through the hands of a number of prominent collectors and dealers, including Kelly Kinzle, who had offered it for sale at the 2015 Winter Antiques Show for a reported $1.2 million. Finally it came to auction at Morphy, where it was purchased by a private individual, along with a large collection of historical and provenance documentation, for $664,200[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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