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LOT 1398
Mixed Military and Other Artefact Collection
20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 - 4 1/4 in. (415 grams total, 3.3-10.9 cm).
Including tailor's chalk, French military medal with ribbon and plate 'Mlaic 1976', square-section clout nails, bone-handled folding fork and corkscrew and other items. [11, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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