A WHITE METAL TRADE NECKLACE AND A PENDANT

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A WHITE METAL TRADE NECKLACE AND A PENDANT
The necklace strung with large white and red glass beads with large central turtle flanked by eight smaller turtles, some with incised ornament, various maker's marks; the pendant cast as a beaver with cross-hatched tail
The largest pendant 12cm. long (2)

Provenance

A. Speyer, Wiesbaden

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

Cf. Vidler, V., American Indian Antiques, Arts and Artifacts of the Northeast, South Brunswick, 1976, p.62, for a similar pendant in the form of a beaver. The maker's marks on the beaver pendant are those of Simon Charles Curtius, 1797-1801

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