My A. D. Grutzmacher Native American relic catalogs from early 1900's

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My A. D. Grutzmacher Native American relic catalogs from early 1900's. I see a few of these from the 30's and 40's every so often. But the early catalogs are reality scarce. I have looked for these catalogs at every show I attended, which is virtually every show, at Collinsville and Owensboro and came up empty.

My A. D. Grutzmacher Native American relic catalogs are from 1913, 1914 and 1919.

A. D. Grutzmacher was a Indian relic seller in the in the late 1800's early 1940's. The sale catalog for Indian relics, including tomahawks, flint spears, knives, gouges, stone axes, chisels, pestles, ancient pipes, mound builder's pottery, Sioux Indian pipes, and much, much more. Illustrations of various Native American relics from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky adorn the front cover.

Examples of some of his advertising can be found in The Naturalist: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Natural Science, Volume 1 July 1894; Popular Mechanics Jan 1917, Popular Mechanics - Dec 1928, Popular Science Mar 1943,

Arthur Daniel Grutzmacher was born 26 Jun 1874 in Vernon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He died 19 Feb 1965 (aged 90) in Mukwonago, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He was buried Vernon Center Cemetery in Vernon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

Arthur D. Grutzmacher, willed his collection to the Mukwonago Library in 1965. The Mukwonago Historical Society and Museum was formed in 1967 to take care of his collection, which includes more than 10,000 prehistoric Indian artifacts.

 

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I have some of the old "Hobbies" magazines from the early 1900's, with ads in them advertising the stuff that was looted out of Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma.

 

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Very nice.

Those are nice, very collectible. I was in Texas visiting my brother. We went to a pub in McKinney for lunch and brew and then hit an old antique shop. On the 2nd floor the jumble of items was fun to go through. In an overflowing magazine/newspaper rack I found an old Hobbies magazine in very nice condition for a few bucks - a bargain.

One thing I like about the older publications like this and the CSASI, the authors sometimes put into the columns the location they find the relics they are talking about in the column. I don't see that in many columns written now.