In addition, there is a large section of Americana, featuring Native American stone and pottery items, primarily from Oklahoma and the Mississippi Valley. The sale hosts more than 2200, antique to modern (probably none more recent than 1965) firearms, swords, crossbows and knives. Larry Wilson, a prolific firearms writer and author of approximately 60 books on antique firearms, who as a young man and budding firearms scholar, worked for Colt about the time this part of the collection went into storage. As an example, none of these weapons were known to R. Nearly all of the items have been stored away, out of public view, since at least 1965 (54 years!), long before the modern era when most of the well-written and researched reference and table-top books on antique firearms were published.

None of the items in this sale are out of the current museum exhibit displays. Proceeds of this sale directly benefit the long-term care and maintenance of the Collection. The museum is a must-see for any weapons collector, displaying an incredible amount and variety of weaponry and famous felon, outlaw, and law enforcement personality items from history. It is the largest firearms Museum in North America. Davis Arms & Historical Museum in Claremore, which is today managed by the State of Oklahoma. To preserve his collection in perpetuity, he created the 40,000-square-foot J.M. From the age of seven in 1901 until 1965, he was an inveterate collector of all firearms, as well as artifacts reflecting history in Oklahoma and the Mississippi Valley region. Davis ran the Mason Hotel in Claremore, Oklahoma, for his entire career, from 1917 onward. Davis Private Collection Firearm and Artifact Auction

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