This auction will include: Civil -WWI - WWII and other military items to be sold at absolute public auction to settle living estate.  Owner moving and downsizing.  This is a life long collection.  100’s of items -swords, knives-bayonets- several cannons from small to large.
Third Reich Battle Flag
Captured by William (Bill) Chappell of Transylvania County, NC, who was in General Patton’s Tank Division Army.  Flag was captured during the Battle of the Bulge.  Flag was later given to his niece in 1946.  Mr. Chappell brought back artifacts from the war to give to relatives.  His niece was so scared to show the flag that she placed it in a cedar chest where it stayed until 2006 when she gave it to the owner of this estate. Flag stayed in the darkness in cedar chest for 61 years.
Special Item: Pieces of Shrapnel from German A-Bomb called a Buzz Bomb.
Includes a handwritten letter from Frank W. Moody, Msg/Sqt. U.S. Army Retired dated July 28, 1999,  which says, ”This is a piece of shrapnel from the lst V-Bomb sent on London, England.  I was running a 16mm movie in a dining room for General Eisenhower and some  high ranking British officers during daylight hours when this pilot-less flying bomb ran out of gas and dived down to Earth.  The crater was about 80 feet in diameter and about 40 feet deep still smoking.  The projector went airborne and onto the floor.  We all walked down a few blocks to see the smoking crater and the damage from the flying shrapnel.  This piece was still too hot to handle so I found an old rag that brought and brought it back to camp and on to the U.S.A. after the war.
I can’t remember the date but it was the beginning of a lot of those afflicts on London.
They came over London both day and night, until the launching pad in German was located and destroyed. “
Another Item that is in a display Box -
Western Carolina University Professor Roy Leonard Cox, a Veteran of Foreign Wars, was forced in Germany to bail out of his aircraft.  He took refuge in a barn.  A German soldier found him and drew his pistol and shot.  The gun has misfired, Roy fired killing the man and retrieved the Pistol, Dagger and Nazis Arm Band.  Professor Cox brought these items back home after the war.
Other Items:  6 assorted Miniature Steam Engines one propane, Collection of hand carved Powder Horns and Flasks, Handmade Water Can for Cannon, Throwing Hatchet and others, 1000’s of rounds of Ammo (lots of it, hard to find), Corn Sheller, WWI Helmet, WWII Helmet, 1911 45 cal Extended Magazine, 308 Drum Magazine, AR15 Drum Magazine, AR15 30 round Magazine, WWII Fight Knife, Civil War Shadow Box, Bullet Mold Shadow Box, Revolution War Canteen, Shot Pouch, 1913 Bayonet, Tomahawk circa 1750, Civil War Scabbard, Civil War Union Compass, Holster for Civil War Pistol, Fire starter, British Commando Knife, Revolutionary War Sword D guard, Revolutionary War Drummer Boys Drum (restored) and Flute (Fife), the last Sword made by US designed by George Patton, Military Tripod,  Japanese and Military swords, and hundreds of assorted small colletible items.  This is a must see collection, all belonging to one gentleman.  
  Will have pictures asap.  Preview: Saturday July 20, 4:30pm until sale time