Bowie knife, blade marked "G. Wostenholm & Son, Washington Work, I-XL, the real IXL knife, The Hunters Companion."
The "Bowie knife" is famous from the Sandbar Fight of 1827, during which James 'Jim' Bowie first used such a knife to effect.
Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building, Austin, Texas.
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