April 23, 2024
CRIPPLE CREEK "BORDELLO" KNIFE & SHEATH --
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a Super neat little "bordello" knife & sheath --pewter inlaid wood handle --blade is about 5" and very sharp --sheath is leather all back stitched --copper band at top marked :" Crapper Jacks Saloon" --Crapper Jacks was a saloon and "bordello" in the 1880s-1890s in Cripple Creek,Colo. during the heyday of the Colorado "Gold Rush" --I imagine one of the working "ladies" had this stuffed into a garter in case one of the miners got a little out of hand --I bought this from an old man up in Cripple Creek when I owned the "Theater of Time" Museum of the Amer. Indian and Fur Trade in the mid 1980s --this is a really Cool little saloon and bordello knife !!!!!!
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