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BY TOMMY FOWLER
Gamecock Staff Writer
One of the nation's most
"extensive and varied"
collections of military and
historical artifacts has made
its home in the War Memorial
Building at USC.
Dr. Francis A. Lord, owner
of the collection, is exhibiting
weapons dating back from the
Revolutionary War to the
Vietnam conflict. His
collection has been described
by experts as being one of the
best in the United States.
Lord started the collection as
a childhood hobby by gathering
the relics from family mem
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War II.
His collection contains
weapons used by the early
American colonists, German
and Japanese prisoners, and
soldiers from all major
American wars.
In his collection, of which the
Museum exhibition is just a
small part, are relics from the
Civil War such as muskets,
swords, uniforms and shoes.
Lord also has a remembrance
of the Custer massacre, a
tomahawk found at Wounded
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stated, "all the way from the
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Asked what the price of these
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'nuskets were worth hundreds
>f dollars alone. One of the
tems, Ben Butler's chest of
supposedly stolen Tiffany
silver from New Orleans,
mould sell for "several
housand dollars."
Many of the items Lord has
cn display were obtained by
trades with other reputable
collectors, he explained. The
-est of his collection will be
displayed beginning in 1974.
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