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Hudson Bay Style Silver Beaver Gorget Necklace

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
Hudson Bay Style Silver Beaver Gorget Necklace
The lot features a silver beaver gorget exotic trade bead necklace in the style and manner of the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Company examples of the 19th Century. This example, which is of a more contemporary craftsmanship, shows a double gorget being hallmarked, “HB” along with “MONTREAL”, “WS” and a walking Lion while also showing an engraved walking bear along with three engraved and hallmarked beavers. The silver gorget is displayed on a strand of early 19th Century exotic trade beads, most likely sand beads from the Northwest Coast. Overall the necklace is 36” strung and the gorget is 10”x5”. The age and origin of the gorget is not known and thought to be contemporary.