Rare Rifleman's Hammer Pole Tomahawk - Jul 18, 2013 | Guernsey's In Pa
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Rare Rifleman's Hammer Pole Tomahawk
Rare Rifleman's Hammer Pole Tomahawk
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Extremely rare rifleman's Hammer Pole in it's original leather over-shoulder sheath, ca. 1820. crudely made by frontier blacksmiths from a iron "Gun Barrel" with a sharpened edge blade which is drawn into a long Hammer Pole with the opening of the gun barrel filled in at the end of the pole. On it's original wood haft and still in it's over the shoulder leather sheath, the front of which is black leather, the reverse is brown saddle leather. Many frontiersmen from Daniel Boone on carried exactly these types of tomahawks as they explored and settled the American west. Overall length 14-1/2", tomahawk 5-1/2"
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Rare Rifleman's Hammer Pole Tomahawk

Estimate $4,000 - $5,000
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Starting Price $2,000
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