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Peace Medal Replicas - 3 [162630]

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Jewelry Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Peace Medal Replicas - 3 [162630]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Apr 01 @ 13:30UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Three Peace Medal replicas: 1) 1803 W. H. Harrison Peace Medal, obverse of the 3 x 3.75-inch oval silver medallion is engraved with an image of a Native American on the left giving a wampum belt to a white man on the right over the words // W. H. HARRISON / EEL RIVER NATION / AUG 8, 1803 / VINCENNES //. The reverse is an engraved design of the United States seal with the eagle holding olive branches and arrows. The 24-inch-long necklace is made of round black glass beads and red-white-blue cylindrical beads. 2) 1834 Pierre Chouteau & Co. peace medal, the 36-inch-long necklace is made of dark blue glassy beads, turned bone cylinder beads, and boar tusks or bear claws, a few of which are splitting apart. The obverse of the 2.25-inch diameter brass medallion has a bas-relief right profile of fur trader Pierre Chouteau with the words // PIERRE CHOUTEAU & CO. / UPPER MISSOURI OUTFIT // around the inside circumference. Reverse design has two crossed peace pipes and a pair of clasped hand between the words // PEACE / AND / FRIENDSHIP / 1834 //. 3) 1862 Lincoln Indian Peace Medal, 3-inch diameter medallion bearing a high-relief profile of Abraham Lincoln with the words // ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES / 1862 // around the inside circumference. Beneath Lincoln's shoulder, the medal is signed "S. Ellis. DEL. SC.", while the reverse is "J. Willson. DEL. & SC." "DEL" is an abbreviation for the Latin delineavit ("he drew it"), and "SC" is an abbreviation for Sculpsit ("he carved/sculpted it"). Salathiel Ellis had the contract for the original Lincoln medals. $1,250 was allotted to the Mint for the silver. The original medals were only made in silver. This example appears to be brass plated base metal. The reverse has no text, but the center image shows a Native America in feathered headdress plowing with a horse while five children play baseball in the left background. Thirty-two-inch necklace is made from yellowish glass beads, eighteen, approx. 1.5-inch brass sheets rolled into cylinders, and two bear claws. Below the medallion hangs a 3/4-inch skull-shaped bead with a horsehair tuft pendant below. A detailed description of the original medal can be found at https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n06a29.html. Each of the three medals in this lot are displayed in 12 x 16 inch Riker boxes with a synthetic white fiber cushion material.

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