AN INDIAN-TRADE SILVER CROSS

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AN INDIAN-TRADE SILVER CROSS
MAKER'S MARK OF FRANCOIS PAUL MALCHER, DETROIT, CIRCA 1790

Cruciform, with shaped arms, the front engraved with a figure of a seated wolf with engraved borders, the reverse engraved with simple quatrefoil, with loop for suspension, marked PM on front--12 1/4in. long
(3 oz. 10 dwt.)

Lot Essay

The mark of Francois Paul Malcher (b. 1751-d. 1810) appears in conjunction with another mark, DETROIT in a rectangle, on two spoons in the Detroit Institute of Arts. One of these spoons is described in Ross Allan C. Fox, Quebec and Related Silver at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978, p. 116.