LOT OF 3: GETTYSBURG RELICS.

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/18/2020

Lot consists of three Gettysburg relics from the collection of Charles R. "Hap" Hazard, a well-respected Civil War author and collector. (A) Shattered fife of dark wood with German silver mounts bearing period paper label reading, "Gettysburg Penna" with a stamped or printed item number "2" and printed find location: "Emmitsburg Pike". This comes with a note by Hazard that the fife was found on the Gettysburg battlefield by David Starry of York Springs, PA, an Adams County town just north of Gettysburg. Starry mustered into Co. I 165th Pa on 11/7/62 and mustered out on 7/28/63 at Gettysburg. The regiment was a 9-month unit that served at Suffolk VA. Starry was a company musician, which may explain why he picked up a fife as a battlefield souvenir. He had subsequent service in the 21st Pa Cavalry. The fife was on display in the Peter Miller G.A.R Post 551 in York Springs. The post closed sometime before 1925 and the fife ended up back in the Starry family, from whom it was purchased by an antique dealer in the 1970s. CONDITION: Shattered near the lower end with the lower section retained by a piece of old wire. (B) Drumstick bearing a similar paper reading "Gettysburg Penna" with a stamped or printed number "02." A similar drumstick from the Hazard collection, found on the Spangler Farm, is pictured in "Gettysburg Battlefield Relics & Souvenirs" by O'Donnell, Hazard, and Boardman on page 81 and is attributed to Starry as well, but it seems to be a different example. CONDITION: Good. Minor chips and stains from exposure. (C) Heart shaped block of wood bearing a bullet. This piece is pictured in "Gettysburg Battlefield Relics and Souvenirs" identified as coming from Culp's Hill. A faint pencil note on reverse seems to read "Sharpsburg," but this may refer to a provenance from the Remsburg collection in the Sharpsburg are, which contained both Antietam and Gettysburg relics, It is a nice example of the Victorian preservation of historical material at the same time it is altered to something useful or ornamental. The fife and drumstick are relics from company musicians who were usually assigned to aid medical personnel as their commands moved into action. SR

Item Dimensions: Largest: 18" x 1" x 1".

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Battle Relics Book