Custer's last flag won for $2.2m at auction
- December 12, 2010 18:55
The only surviving American flag from General Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold at a Sotheby's sale for $2.2 million on Saturday.
Custer and 200 of his troops perished in their famous battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors in 1876.
The war-torn U.S. Calvary flag, called a guidon, was from the collection of Detroit Institute of Arts, which purchased it in 1895 for $54.
An anonymous American private collector was the winning bidder.
Also offered by Sotheby's, the original rules for basketball sold for $4 million in New York on Friday. Read more about the basketball document from CBC News.
