This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/27/2019
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Brewery: Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. St. Louis, Missouri
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Date of manufacture: pre-prohibition
Contents/Type: 12 oz
Condition/Comments: Measures about 48" x 38" framed. Shows it's age, see detailed photos. This lithograph depicts the grisly battle between General Custer’s troops and Indian warriors at Little Big Horn. Custer is featured at center waving a saber and dressed in fringed buckskin. The remaining cavalry officers (except for his brother Tom) are dressed in military uniform. Indians are armed with scalping knives, tomahawks, clubs, spears and rifles. Dead of both parties appear in foreground, with several being identified in the bottom margin as Courier from Sitting Bull, Squaw Killing wounded, Rain In the face and the Sioux Warrior who killed Custer. Custer’s medals and banners are in lower left margin. Mounted Indian poses beside a monument in lower right margin. In the small margin directly under the picture it is marked Entered According To Act Of Congress By Adolphus Busch march 30th 1896 In The office of The Librarian Of Congress At Washington, D.C. In the lower center portion it is marked The Original Painting has been Presented to the Seventh Regiment U.S. Cavalry By Anheuser Busch Brewing Association, St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. Due to the large size of this item, local pickup or delivery at a show only, unless bidder arranges packaging/shipping.