United States. A Bronze Bust of George Armstrong Custer

In blackened cast bronze, hollow, weighing 6.5 kilograms, illustrating George Armstrong Custer in his cavalry uniform, with the overcoat draped around it, his face exhibiting great detail, complete with his trademark flowing hair and beard, wearing his cavalry hat with the right side raised and bearing a long feather, arms crossed, his left hand grasping the handle of a downward-pointing sword, the uniform with two rows of buttons on the front, his right shoulder adorned with decorative braid, along with braid on both cuffs, measuring approximately 200 mm in width x 170 mm in depth x 310 mm in height inclusive of its 106 mm x 106 mm pedestal base, black felt protective pads placed on three of the four corners along the bottom edge, extremely fine.

Footnote: George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, but as the Civil War was just starting, trained officers were in immediate demand. He worked closely with General George B. McClellan and the future General Alfred Pleasonton, both of whom recognized his qualities as a cavalry leader, and he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers at age 23. Only a few days after his promotion, he fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he commanded the Michigan Cavalry Brigade and despite being outnumbered, defeated J.E.B. Stuart's attack at what is now known as the East Cavalry Field. In 1864, he served in the Overland Campaign and in Philip Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley, defeating Jubal Early at Cedar Creek. His division blocked the Army of Northern Virginia's final retreat and received the first flag of truce from the Confederates. He was present at Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. After the war, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army and was sent west to fight in the Indian Wars. On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he was killed along with every soldier of the five companies he led after splitting the regiment into three battalions. This action became romanticized as "Custer's Last Stand". His dramatic end was as controversial as the rest of his career, and reaction to his life and career remains deeply divided. His legend was partly of his own fabrication through his extensive journalism, and perhaps more through the energetic lobbying of his wife Elizabeth Bacon "Libbie" Custer throughout her long widowhood.