With 2011 being the 150th anniversary of the Civil War I wanted to show you this strange looking figure. If you click on the image can you guess what it is? It is railroad related that is certain.
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It is a Sherman Necktie. If you look very closely you can see this is a railroad rail that is wrapped tightly around a tree.
from Wiki....
It is a Sherman Necktie. If you look very closely you can see this is a railroad rail that is wrapped tightly around a tree.
from Wiki....
Sherman's neckties were a phenomenon of the American Civil War. Named after Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, Sherman's neckties were railway rails destroyed by heating them until they were malleable and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees. Since the Confederacy had limited supplies of iron, and few foundries to roll the rails, this destruction was very difficult to repair. They were also called Sherman's bow ties, Sherman's hairpins or Jeff Davis hairpins.
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i have a sherman bowtie. any idea of value?
No idea what it is worth, I suppose it would be related to how much rail and location found etc... It is something I might be interested in however.
I've seen pictures of these that actually *look* like bow ties but not one like this.
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