Lot 414

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414. ANDERSONVILLE PRISON TRUNCHEON A particularly brutal, if not deadly relic from the infamous Confederate P.O.W. prison at Andersonville, Ga., a wooden club weighted with a large section of lead at its head, obviously used on prisoners who failed to "obey the rules" at the camp. The club measures 11 1/4" overall and is 2 1/2" wide at the top. Its end bears a heavy section of lead fitted into the wood handle, the lead secured by an iron nail driven into it about an inch beneath the end. Halfway down the handle is a beige, period braided cord which passes through a hole in the handle. Near the top appears a description which we have examined and which appears to have been written with a stylus in very thick ink or a paint-like substance obviously in period hand, reading: "picked up at Andersonville after the liberation". Excellent provenance: obtained by noted Gettysburg militaria and Civil War dealers The Horse Soldier, from the collection of James Samatalas. Frankly, one would be hard-pressed to locate a relic more symbolic of Andersonville's brutality. $1,000-1,500

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