A large collection of relics from the battle of the Alamo returned to San Antonio Tuesday morning, courtesy of Phil Collins.
The rock music legend presented the items including the "fringed leather pouch" Davie Crockett carried the day he fell at the Alamo.
It's considered one of the biggest and best collections of Alamo artifacts ever assembled.
Collins helped deliver his own priceless collection of Alamo artifact and pushed one of the carts containing relics that date back to 1836. The items had been sitting in his basement in Switzerland before they were shipped to San Antonio.
"I decided at some point I am going to have to do something with it," he reflected. "The idea of it coming back home and not going to a museum."
The pop legend handed over the legendary knife of Jim Bowie, one of only four remaining rifles owned by Davie Crockett and Crockett's pouch which contained the dust of tortillas.
The singer was a young boy when he first fell in love with the Alamo while watching the King of the Wild Frontier and started purchasing items in 1994.
"This completes a journey for me," he said. "I'm 64 but when I was 5 or 6, this thing began," Collins said.
He said he spent nearly $15 million on the collection.
"I decided to spend my money on that instead of Ferraris," he joked.
The treasures from a battle that took less than two hours to fight, have finally come home to the Alamo some 300 years later. Against all odds.
"I'm not sad," said Collins. "I'm really happy that it's going here because this is the place it should be."
When can the public see the items first hand? The Alamo Endowment said in a few weeks the public can enjoy seeing a few of the items. Meantime the Alamo Endowment is working on funding for building a permanent home to showcase all of Collins' collection.
