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LOT 2137
Naval Leather Binocular Case
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (705 grams, 19.2 cm wide).
Moulded case with lid and strap handle, the lid with a stamped M beneath a crown and flanked by handwritten numbers 2 and 7. [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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