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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/custers-last-flag-sold-for-12m.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Culbertson Guidon from the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-custers-last-flag-sold-for-12m.jpg" alt="The Culbertson Guidon from the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn"/></a></p>
<p>The only US flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer&#8217;s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in south eastern Montana has been bought at auction on a bid of 1.9 million US dollars (£1.2 million).</p>
<p>The frayed 7th US Cavalry flag &#8211; known as a &#8220;guidon&#8221; for it&#8217;s swallow-tailed shape &#8211; was sold at Sotheby&#8217;s auction house in New York.</p>
<p>The seller was the Detroit Institute of Arts, which bought the flag for just 54 dollars (£34) in 1895. The buyer was not immediately known.</p>
<p>Custer and more than 200 troopers were massacred by Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors in the infamous 1876 battle. Of five guidons carried by Custer&#8217;s battalion, only one was immediately recovered.</p>
<p>The flag had been valued at 2 million to 5 million US dollars.</p>
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