A few examples of appraisal values for
BUFFALO SKINNER

• 5PC. KNIFE LOT: To Include: 1)
  5PC. KNIFE LOT: To Include: 1) Concord Antler Handled fixed blade hunting knife with sheath; 2) Original Buffalo Skinner by F.A. Bower with sheath; 3) Early Bowie-style knife stamped ''T.X.O.''; 4) Bush Patrol survival knife; 5) Bowie-style bone handle knife with sheath. CONDITION: 5) Considerable rust.
• ORIGINAL BUFFALO SKINNER
  ORIGINAL BUFFALO SKINNER KNIFEHoffritz German Original Buffalo Skinner horn handled knife. In embossed leather sheath. Wear to knife handle, rust and wear to knife blade, wear to sheath. 10 1/2"L
• EIGHT NEW STAG HANDLED LINDER
  EIGHT NEW STAG HANDLED LINDER KNIVES Eight different unused stag handled hunting knives with thumb guards, six are Linder-Messer and two are Linder- Rehwappen, types included are a dagger, five straight blades, a buffalo skinner, and a drop point hunter, the buffalo skinner and drop point skinner both have a full tang through handle construction, others are held together with a tightening screw through the butt end. Approximate measurements: Blades range from a l. 2. 5" for the petite hunter to l. 5. 5" for the dagger, overall range, petite hunter l. 5. 5" to l. 10" for the dagger.
• FIVE NEW LINDER-MESSER HUNTING
  FIVE NEW LINDER-MESSER HUNTING KNIVES Five new hunting knives by Linder-Messer, Solingen, comprising two marked "buffalo skinners", one with a black handle an inset fleur-d-lis medallion, the other having a stag handle and ribbed thumb grip, both with one extended guard quillion; and three marked: "original bowie knife", two with a full tang through handle, heavy stag scales, multiple rivets and full two sided finger guard, and the other with a tightening nut on an aluminum butt end and full two sided brass finger guard. Approximate measurements: Black handled buffalo skinner blade l. 4. 75", overall l. 9. 25"; stag handled buffalo skinner blade l. 5. 75", overall l. 11"; small bowie blade l. 5. 5", over all 11"; medium
• Lot. Autograph Material.
  Lot. Autograph Material. Guthrie, Woody. Archive of Autograph Letters Signed, Autograph Manuscript & Typescript Short Stories, Signed Ephemera & other related material: Autograph Letters Signed, all to Charlotte Straus of Philadelphia, all but the last from U.S. military bases on which Guthrie was serving as a private: Scott Field, Ill., Oct. 29, 1945. 4to, 5 pp.; Scott Field, Ill., Nov 3, 1945. 4to, 8 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 5, 1945. 4to, 5 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 10 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 10, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 18, 1945. 4to, 18 pp. - bottom 1/2 of the last leaf of this letter is clipped away, removing its text & presumably Guthrie's signature; Las Vegas, Dec. 21, [19]45, 4to, 4 pp.; Brooklyn, Jan. 2, 1946, 4to, 1 p.; [Stroud]sburg, Pa., Oct. 8, 1946, folio, 8 pp. Autograph Manuscript Short Story Signed. "I Spin, You Spin." 4to, 6 pp., in ink, signed, "Woody Guthrie / Sept. 15, 1946, Delaware Water Gap." Some dampstaining - no text obscured. * Another copy of the preceding, 4to, 6 pp., in pencil, signed, "Woody Guthrie, Sept. 15, 1946." Typescript Short Story. "Study Butte." 4to, 27 pp. With autograph signed inscription [to Charlotte Straus] on gutter margin of p. 1, signed , "Woody, 10-3-1917." 1 vol. Guthrie, Woody. American Folksong - cover title. N.p., n.d. 4to, orig. flexible bds. Inscribed & signed to Charlotte Straus in ink. Pencil & watercolor letters on front & back endpapers, dated, "May 28, 1947," variously signed as "Woody" & "W.G." Record Album. "Documentary #1 Struggle." Three 78 records in orig. sleeve, featuring "Buffalo Skinners" & 4 more songs by Woody Guthrie (album includes 1 song by Sonny Terry). Inscribed to Charlotte [Straus] & signed by "Woody, Marjorie & Cathy" [Guthrie] on part sleeve of "Buffalo Skinners" record, Woody has added, apparently refering to the song, "This is me struggling." Disc Company of America. "Songs To Grow On, Nursery Days." New York, n.d. Printed sheet folded in 8 12mo pp. With songs by Woody Guthrie written for his children & Disc Company adverts. for other of their Children's records. On title, "Our latest album / Woody Guthrie," in Guthrie's hand. Charlotte Straus of Philadelphia wrote to Woody Guthrie in 1945 after reading his book Bound for Glory. Guthrie responded to her letter on Oct. 29, 1945, while in service as a private in the American armed forces. His letter warmly acknowledged Charlotte's apparently rich & sympathetic response to his work. A warm & intimate correspondence, recorded on Guthrie's side by the letters above, developed between Oct. 29, 1945 & Oct. 8, 1946. Guthrie's reverie-filled letters offer Straus intimate reflections, "I want to tell you that 90% of your whole letter set up some pretty sad aches and pains in me" (Nov. 3, 1945) & whimsy, "Here's eight pages of molasses to go all over your pancakes" (Dec. 8, 1945), reflections on their relationship & his response to the desert surrounding his Las Vegas service base, "The desert is so lonesome that she blows a cold air across her bosom. You have a way of making me want to [?] down and buy more smokes and to set here in the window and look down across the barracks and write what crosses my mind" (Dec. 10, 1945); "You made me recall my trips all back through myself" (Dec. 21, 1945); "I had some writing on my mind, writing that the health book speaks about caused by fights in your head you must get out caused by some general visions whirling there of dreams you see and know and ones you doubt" (Dec. 8, 1945). Guthrie also discusses his work, praises Charlotte's passion for & knowledge of folk music, describes his domestic life including his wife Marjorie's attitude & background, "her mother Eliza Greenblatt, is one of the finest of the Yiddish... poetesses of the beauty for beauty's sake generation (Dec. 18, 1945). The letter of Dec. 8, 1945 includes eight pages of Guthrie song lyrics, beginning, "Take this and climb a hill somewhere away / From your factory and from / your night and from your day / and lay your head down on your chosen spot / and say yourself what these words fail to say." The letter of Oct. 8, 1946 from Stroudsburg, Pa. closes with three pages of song lyrics & drawings of figures & hearts on its last page. Altogether a privileged and detailed entry into Woody Guthrie's intertwined personal & professional lives. ,000-12,000 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Freeman''s Conditions of Sale.