Custer flag to be sold by DIA Museum

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The guidon of the 7th Cavalry that once sold for $54 is now expected to go for $5 million!

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Custer flag to be sold by DIA | Detroit Free Press | freep.com


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[NAVA1974]

That was quite a vexillological relic. It sold for $2 million in December.

No, I didn't place a bid, though Sotheby's did send me a catalog (wishful thinking on their part.)

I could have afforded to pay $54.

Nick A
Columbia MD

[csaanv]

Well, at least you have a nice photograph of the flag from the catalog.

[NAVA1974]

Well, at least you have a nice photograph of the flag from the catalog.

Oh, absolutely! The catalog is like a textbook on this flag.

[Robin Hickman]

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It MUST be a FAKE, cuz I bought the REAL one on eBay for 99 cents (+$1.50 S&H) !!!

It was made of 100% genuine antique NYLON with authentic machine-embroidered POLYESTER stars, and a real, honest-to-goodness, DACRON header that had an authentic BAR CODE heat-stamped right in the middle, and IMPORTED all the way from old-town Shanghai, CHINA still in its PLASTIC bag !!!





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Robin "I Made The WHOLE Thing Up! HONEST!!!" Hickman
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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[NAVA1974]

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It MUST be a FAKE, cuz I bought the REAL one on eBay for 99 cents (+$1.50 S&H) !!! .

Robin. Sorry, but YOUR flag is a fake. The Government did not require bar codes back then!

Nick A
Columbia MD