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Best from the Midwest: Spring 2004
8:00 AM PT - May 21st, 2004

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Cowan's Auctions, Inc.

6270 Este Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45232
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All lots in the sale will be available for preview between 9 am and 11 am on the day of the sale. The auction will be held at the Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Cincinnati, OH 45246. Appointments may be made to preview the items at our warehouse until about a week before the sale. Please call for information (513-871-1670).

400 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
686 Lot 686

Game Bag, Horn Cup & Beaver Cap, lot of 3; includes an open weave jute small game bag with red and green cordage d...

300
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400
2 Bids
687 Lot 687

Brass & Copper Powder Flasks, includes a shell motif example (Riling 1953: #388), with 4 carrying rings; 9.5" long;...

150
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250
4 Bids
688 Lot 688

Leather & Knotted Linen Hunting Bag, large brown leather hunting bag with strap and front flap; front of bag is cov...

250
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350
2 Bids
689 Lot 689

Two Hunting Pouches and Horns, both undecorated with domed wood plugs and nice early brown leather bags with should...

500
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800
1 Bid
690 Lot 690

Three Hunting Bags and Horn, lot of 4. Includes two small leather hunting bags, one with brass heart button closure...

400
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600
3 Bids
691 Lot 691

Two Horns and Hunting Bag, fine early brown leather hunting bag with flap and broken strap; 8.5" wide x 6.8" high; ...

300
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400
3 Bids
720 Lot 720

Early Mediterranean Type Folding Knife, single edged unmarked 6.9" blade with engraved brass collar and carved hard...

200
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300
4 Bids
721 Lot 721

Early Mediterranean Type Folding Knife, single edged 6.75" clipped end blade, marked Beghona Copci; brass an...

200
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300
2 Bids
722 Lot 722

Forged Steel Sailor's Knife/Fid, unmarked 6.4" single edged blade with ricasso; mounted on hexagonal rosewood singl...

200
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300
2 Bids
723 Lot 723

Early French Folding Knife, Single edged 5" blade with clipped end, marked Beauvoir with toning fork above;...

250
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350
1 Bid
724 Lot 724

Early Horn handled Folding Knife, Mediterranean style, made from Spain to Switzerland, two-piece horn grip with 7" ...

200
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300
1 Bid
725 Lot 725

Good Denver Colorado Skinning Knife, ca 1880, stamped on blade J.B. Whitrus/Denver Colo.; 13" long curved si...

400
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600
1 Bid
726 Lot 726

Handmade Folding Knives, lot of 2; includes a Mediterranean-style with single-edged unmarked 7.4" blade, curving si...

200
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300
1 Bid
727 Lot 727

Early Folding Knives, Lot of 2; both with locking blades; includes a single edged clipped edge unmarked 4.5" blade...

200
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300
1 Bid
728 Lot 728

Early Folding Knives, lot of 2. Includes a Mediterranean-style with unmarked 6.5" clipped end blade and two-piece h...

200
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300
7 Bids
729 Lot 729

Early Folding Knives Plus, Lot of 3; includes a jackknife with horn grip in form of lady's leg with nickel mounts a...

200
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300
730 Lot 730

Early Folding Knives, lot of 3; all single edged and of the type typically carried by 19th century both naval and m...

200
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300
1 Bid
731 Lot 731

Hand Forged Knives, lot 2, both hand forged steel. Includes a folding jackknife with open grip; 4.75" closed x 7.85...

200
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300
1 Bid
732 Lot 732

Early Bone & Antler Handled Knives, lot of 2. Includes a double-edged dagger 7.65" long unmarked blade with primiti...

150
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200
1 Bid
733 Lot 733

Three Barlow Type Knives, including one that is likely the world's smallest with 2-piece horn handle, single foldin...

200
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300
1 Bid
734 Lot 734

Lapp Knives Plus, lot of 3. Includes a wonderfully carved Lapp knife with curved reindeer bone sheath with tooled l...

300
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400
1 Bid
735 Lot 735

Large Group of Point Pleasant Clay Trade Pipes by Kirkpatrick & Others, lot of 46 items. Includes 10 Point Pleasan...

300
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500
3 Bids
736 Lot 736

Early Padlock, Whistles & Needle Case, lot of 4, all 19th century; includes an early wrought steel and brass padloc...

200
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300
5 Bids
737 Lot 737

Hudson Bay Fish Hook Sample Card, unique display of steel fishing hooks, mounted on card stock showing various size...

200
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300
42 Bids
738 Lot 738

Signed Wrought Iron Belt Axe, stamped on right blade face MPF, early large form of this simplest of types ma...

200
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300
9 Bids
739 Lot 739

Early Wrought Steel Felling Axes, lot of 2, also commonly called belt axes; includes a rounded poll example with ov...

250
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350
1 Bid
740 Lot 740

Early Axe Heads, lot of 2. Includes an early forged steel pickaroon for moving logs with lapped forged oval eye, po...

200
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300
741 Lot 741

Pipe Tomahawk, forged steel with diamond-shaped eye typical of this style often called gun barrel pipe tomahawk as ...

200
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300
5 Bids
742 Lot 742

Pipe & Spiked Tomahawks, lot of 2, both hand wrought steel. Includes pipe tomahawk head with slightly oval eye whic...

150
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200
5 Bids
743 Lot 743

Spiked Tomahawk Head, likely Iroquois, ca late 18th or early 19th century. Hand-forged steel with an oval eye with ...

200
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300
3 Bids
744 Lot 744

Hatchet or Axe Heads, lot of 3. Includes a wrought belt axe, with unusually long bit and rectangular hammer-type po...

150
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200
1 Bid
745 Lot 745

Belt & Felling Axes, lot of 2. Both wrought iron and steel with old but not original handles, oval eyes tapering to...

150
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200
1 Bid
746 Lot 746

Spontoon Bit & Early Poll Axe, lot of 2. Includes bit end of an early forged steel spontoon-type axe, broken at th...

300
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500
747 Lot 747

Indian Wars and Spanish American War Tintypes, lot of 11. Most are from an artillery company with crossed cannon an...

400
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500
11 Bids
748 Lot 748

Spanish-American War Letter, Treon (?), F.W. (Co. L, 32nd Mich. Vol), 6pp, 6 x 9.5", on YMCA stationery, Tampa, FL...

200
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300
1 Bid
749 Lot 749

Span-American War Mirror, combination hat rack and mirror, wall mounted diamond shape in stamped brass plated tin o...

200
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400
7 Bids
750 Lot 750

Officer's Belt Plate With Leather, circa 1900. Standard rectangular cast brass officers belt plate with spread wing...

200
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300
1 Bid
751 Lot 751

Span-AM Fitzhugh Lee Canteen, clear pressed glass with sepia circular photograph on side with pink ground and name...

200
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300
3 Bids
752 Lot 752

1899 Broadside for Naval Parade and Fireworks, 6.75 x 10.75", pink paper. Broadside announcing the celebration hono...

200
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300
753 Lot 753

Infamous Notice of WWI Execution of Edith Cavell. printed in French with attached photomechanical portrait at bott...

400
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600
1 Bid
754 Lot 754

Rare Sinking of the Lusitania Material, includes a newspaper published the day after the sinking, with the first ac...

500
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700
7 Bids
755 Lot 755

Print of Maj. Lufbery, Ace of the 94th Aero-Squadron, silver gelatin print of a young dashing American office in un...

200
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300
1 Bid
756 Lot 756

Print of Lt. Winslow of the 94th Aero-Squadron, silver gelatin print of a young Winslow in uniform, standing next t...

200
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300
5 Bids
757 Lot 757

Accoutrements of Mexican Service & World War I Hero, archive of letters, photographs and personal military effects ...

300
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400
1 Bid
758 Lot 758

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker honored at a Victory Dinner in Chicago. Program/Menu, which attendees received; great WW...

300
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400
759 Lot 759

Photograph of Major General Leonard Wood, with handwritten inscription dated 1919; Major General Leonard Wood/Fe...

200
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300
760 Lot 760

Album of Photographs of the Launching of the S.S.
Album of Photographs of the Launching of the S.S. Ingold<...

300
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500
1 Bid
761 Lot 761

Japanese/American Internment Camp Photograph Album, U.S. government document/photo archive entitled Selected Pho...

400
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800
24 Bids
762 Lot 762

Unique Adlai Stevenson Photo Album of Egypt, presentation album with inked duo-language inscription on front free e...

300
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500
763 Lot 763

Extravagant Patriotic WWII Show Girl Costume, includes headdress and bodice made with wire frame covered in purple ...

800
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1,000
2 Bids
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