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    • Trade Bead Cluster.

    • Trade Bead Cluster.
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    • A cluster of beads fused together in a roughly pyramidal shape. Individual beads are either red gray or white; the former all have dark gray and black cores. Beads are various sizes. At one corner of the concretion are rusted iron fragments and a...
    • Tobacco Pipes.

    • Tobacco Pipes.
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    • Series of pipe stems from clay tobacco pipes recovered from Fort Leavenworth near Memorial Chapel, NE corner of building. Pipe stems are not marked and are of various lengths and unglazed. Diameters vary from .18 in to .31 in.
    • Tent Shelter Half.

    • Tent Shelter Half.
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    • Drab cotton duck shelter half tent with riveted brown (bronze) colored buttons and button holes along the top and side edges. The bottom edge has holes for three brass grommets. The grommet nearest the closed end of the shelter half is missing....
    • Sword Belt Plate.

    • Sword Belt Plate.
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    • A brass plate, with raised rim and a wreath of laurels encircling an eagle with shield and arrows and laurels held by its talons. Stars, sun rays, and scroll with "E PLURIBUS UNUM" are over the eagles head. The eagle holds part of the scroll in its...
    • Surveyor's Wing Chain.

    • Surveyor's Wing Chain.

    • W. and L.E. Gurley

    • Surveying chain made of iron wire links and oblong brass handles at either end. Attached next to each of the brass handles are two smaller iron wires (2.75" and 3.25" respectively). The rest of the iron wire links are 7.25" in length. There are 48...
    • Surveyor's Equipment Case.

    • Surveyor's Equipment Case.
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    • A pine case with dovetailed ends, metal side handles and hinged lid with lock plate on front. The entire case exterior is stained except for the bottom. The metal side handles are bent rods which pass through the sides and through a metal plate on...
    • Surveyor's Chaining Pins.

    • Surveyor's Chaining Pins.
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    • Ten surveying chaining pins on a circular wire loop keeper. The pins are formed from a .1875 diameter metal rod. They are 10.25 in long and pointed at one end with a two inch diameter eye at the other. The wire keeper is a 5.25 in diameter ring...
    • Surveyor Compass.

    • Surveyor Compass.

    • Samuel Thaxter & Son

    • A brass 6 inch diameter surveyors compass having silver face with directional designations and makers name engraved upon it. Needle is blued steel and mount is brass. The rim with the degrees on it is silver with finely etched numbers. There is an...
    • Surveyor Compass Tripod.

    • Surveyor Compass Tripod.

    • Keuffel & Esser Company

    • A tripod for a surveyors compass consisting of three rounded oak legs. The legs are secured to a brass mounting piece which rests in a notched-out section at top of each rounded leg. A brass bolt with smooth round head passes through leg and...
    • Submachine Gun.

    • Submachine Gun.

    • Auto Ordnance Corporation

    • Blowback action magazine submachine gun, Thompson M1A1, with all the standard features for this weapon. Stocks are of rough-finished walnut, while all the metal is gray Parkerized.
    • Stove Heater.

    • Stove Heater.
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    • Pot belly black cast iron stove with square base on four cabriole legs. Square door on the body of stove has round heat vent. Rectangular door is located on the base of stove for inserting the fuel.
    • Stencil Plate.

    • Stencil Plate.
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    • Stencil plate from a stencil kit. Plate is of the Roman capital letter "K". Originally the upper edge of the plate was turned in to form a rim .50" wide, but is now flattened and only a crease remains.
    • Stained Glass Window.

    • Stained Glass Window.
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    • Gothic arched windows with side borders in an ivy and berry design (yellow and white leaves, red triangles, blue inner edging) and centers of diamond panes (green edging and panes of floral design on a cross hatched field). 59.345.1a -- Top of...
    • Spring Wagon.

    • Spring Wagon.
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    • Wagon has two facing seats for passengers and a forward facing seat on the same level for the driver and under one roof. The roof is not for carrying luggage and has canvas curtains which roll down and fasten to brass swivels on the sides. The...

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