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A Big Bang Year

by | Feb 10, 2017 | Collecting the West, Departments

Most Expensive American Knife: Given to Theodore Roosevelt, by his friend James W. Gerard, for a 1909 African safari outfitted by the Smithsonian, this hunting knife featuring a gold-sculpted eagle head handle sold for a $360,000 bid at Rock Island Auction. Gerard also served in the Spanish-American War, a war in which Roosevelt’s leadership of the Rough Riders gained him national fame that propelled him into the White House; Ro


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