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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 213266, member: 54&quot;]Really hard to say, but if they had all the info I found and put it in the catalog it may have sold for $5-7k.&nbsp; The piece had no carriage, was iron not bronze, wasn&#039;t US military, etc., all of which mitigated against a higher sale price.&nbsp; The piece I&#039;d really liked to have won was the bronze Russian &quot;unicorn&quot; howitzer that had Arabic marks engraved on top.&nbsp; That meant it had almost certainly been captured by the Turks during the Crimean War.&nbsp; I dropped out when it went over 45k when I hadn&#039;t intended to bid over about $30k.&nbsp; I guess I wanted it but not badly enough.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t expect it to go that high.&nbsp; A friend bought it so I guess I could go visit it sometime.&nbsp; I would have enjoyed researching that one, depending on what the inscription says it may be possible to find some documentation of the particular battle where it changed ownership back in the 1850&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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