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Crow Parfleche Sheath & LF&C Skinning Trade Knife

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:175.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Crow Parfleche Sheath & LF&C Skinning Trade Knife
The lot features a Crow polychrome painted parfleche rawhide sheath with LF&C trade knife. The LF&C (L. F. & C.) knife was manufactured by Landers Frary and Clark out of New Britain, Connecticut under the Universal brand. The blade is hallmarked “L.F.&C. UNIVERSAL”. LF&C operated from 1865-1965 with this being a 19th Century example used for skinning hides showing a two-piece copper rivet secured walnut wood grip scales handle. The sheath shows a polychrome painted parfleche rawhide in a geometric traditional design of the Apsaalooke Crow’s of Montana. The piece shows colors of red, blue, green, yellow with sinew sewing and a trade clothe lining on the sewn edge. The back shows a piece of commercially tanned buckskin. The knife measures 10.25”L with a 5.75”L blade. The sheath is 9 3/8”L by 3.25”W.