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Collection of Geronimo items

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:1,750.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Collection of Geronimo items
Includes Epaulets with a picture showing him wearing them, a patch, wanted poster, wooden cane with a snake carving, and also included is a Confiscated evidence tag US Calvary FT BOWIE dated September 1886. The tag reads "PROPERTY OF THE US ARMY TAKEN FROM CHIRICHUA APACHE PRISONER GERONIMO THE FOLLOWING 1. REVOLVER-KNIFE IN LEATHER RIG 2. BROWN WOOD CANE SNAKE CARVED ON IT 3. US ARMY JACKET ADORN W/ OFFICERS HAT BADGE AND EPAULETS4. US ARMY SHOULDER STRIP AND BELT5. PAPERS AND BOOK OF RATION STAMP TURNED TO SUPPLY N.C.O." All of this collection has been nicely mounted on a suede cover board that is framed. It is also said on a paper on the board that the snake cane has religious and mystical meaning to the Apache and symbolizes a cunning warrior in which he was. This collection came from the Louis Davis Collection in Phoenix Arizona.