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Custer's Last Flag: Culbertson Guidon from Battle of Little Bighorn
The guidon goes on the auction block tomorrow at Sotheby's in NYC. The information provided on its history - its loss and recovery - is interesting.
http://www.sothebys.com/minisite/pdf...pdf/N08705.pdf
Richard 
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