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Frontiersman Forged Iron Axe w/ Beaded Drop

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Frontiersman Forged Iron Axe w/ Beaded Drop
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The lot features an American Frontiersman Old Western forged axe with wood shaft with a rawhide drop having beadwork. The axe head shwos a heavy forged iron consturction with origins or maker being unknown, but thought to date to circa 1850-1870. The shaft shows a solid wood shaft with rich dark painta having a single pierced hole that contains a strip of parfleche rawhide having mutiple wound glass Plains Indians trade beads. The piece is not thought to have been a War Axe or Tomahawk, but rather a piece either adorned later in time with the beadwork or traded to a late 19th Century Indian for use around camp. Without the additional drop, the tomahawk measures 15 1/4" long, 6" wide at the head, and 2" thick.