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DEALERS LOT OF 12 NATIVE AMERICAN ELK HORN HIDE

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
DEALERS LOT OF 12 NATIVE AMERICAN ELK HORN HIDE
SCRAPERS. Measuring from about 12 inches to 15 inches overall, most still have rawhide attached iron blades, several have wonderful age patina. Every Sioux woman would cherish this tool that she could provide leather for clothing and teepees. Highly reproduced, only one in this lot appears modern, the other 11 look 19th century. A quick search online shows similar vintage scrapers priced as high as $2000-4000. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: copy of a couple similar examples in current market and in museum collections. CONDITION: fair to very good, rawhide on most appear restored or newer rawhide wrapped over old. PROVENANCE: From the Lifelong Collection of Glen E. Mattox. (02-18505/JS). $2,000-3,000