This is among the highlights of this estate collection in fine condition with 21-1/2" maple haft with six silver bands and twelve silver engraved insets along with silver mouthpiece. The well forged head with teardrop shaped eye also has two engraved silver insets in blade, one being half moon and the other a florally decorated oval. There are also filed designs on bowl & blade. This exact tomahawk is illustrated on pg. 34 of John Baldwin's Tomahawks, Pipe Axes of the American Frontier, 1995 and attributed to the William Guthman Collection. This is as fine an example of a late 18th-early 19th Century pipe tomahawk you will encounter with great provenance coming from Guthman. SIZE: As noted above. PROVENANCE: Bill Guthman Collection; An extraordinary private estate collection of a distinguished Virginia gentleman. CONDITION: Very good to fine. Appears as found with hand worn patina, head slightly loose and a few silver insets are rising, iron has a smooth gray patina & silver has a gray patina overall. 52751-50 JGS (15,000-20,000)