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Show SOLD RELICS OF WASHINGTON Two Authenticated Pistols and a Med icine Chest of His Auctioned in New York. Two pistols which George Washing ton carried through the Revolution, a medicine chest which belonged to hirr and "Light Horse Harry" Lee's fla were sold at auction at New York during dur-ing the past year. There are nc Washington pistols in Mount 'Vernor or in the National museum at WasL ington. The genuinen-ss 01 the offering! was attested by a documentary reo ord of their sale in 1804, in Alexandria Va., at the disposal ef the effects o; Washington's secretary, Bartholomew Dandridge, to whom the general pre sented the weapons. Their presence iu 1S93 at the partition of the Marstel-ler Marstel-ler estate is attested. Col. Philip G, Marsteller, one of Washington's pall-hearers, pall-hearers, bought them at the Dandridge sale for 6:3n. The pistols are of the flintlock type They were made by Hawkins of Lon don and bear the unmaker's guild proof mark "G. P." Silver handT across the butts are engraved "General George Washington." The medicine chest is of mahogany and walnut, about onr foot square with brass hai dies. Lee's flag is aboul two feet square. It had fallen apart from age, but the pieces were saved ana are held in place by thin netting |