Description:

North America, United States, Oklahoma, ca. early 1870s to 1884 CE. A forged-steel knife purportedly once owned by a famous Oklahoma outlaw named Bluford "Blue" Duck. The knife has a tapered, single-edged blade with a narrow point on the end, petite quillons that comprise the T-shaped hand guard, and a pair of wooden panels set into the recessed handle cavities. Blue Duck, born in the Cherokee nation as Sha-con-gah, began riding with various gangs across the Oklahoma frontier in the early 1870s and committed crimes such as armed robberies and cattle rustling. Mr. Duck and William Christie shot a farmer and the horse of a Cherokee boy on June 23, 1884, and he was sentenced to life in prison at Menard Penitentiary in Chester, Illinois. Blue Duck is most famous for a photograph he took with well-known female outlaw Belle Starr in 1886. Size: 10.2" L x 2.375" W (25.9 cm x 6 cm)

Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Steve Cox collection, Van Buren, Arkansas, USA, acquired in 2017

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#154062

  • Condition: Loss to half of one side of wooden handle. Very slight bending to overall form of blade, with minor abrasions to blade and handle, and small nicks to wooden handle. Nice patina throughout.

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