A NORTHERN PLAINS BEADED SKIN GUN CASE AND PIPE BAG, each with panels of flower sprays sewn in coloured beads on a white ground, the former also with a central panel sewn with the initials J.A.B. in pink and blue on one side, red and black on the other, banded beaded tip and central carrying loop, the latter with blue roundels below the curved top and with pink beaded borders, each with skin fringe, mid 19th century

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A NORTHERN PLAINS BEADED SKIN GUN CASE AND PIPE BAG, each with panels of flower sprays sewn in coloured beads on a white ground, the former also with a central panel sewn with the initials J.A.B. in pink and blue on one side, red and black on the other, banded beaded tip and central carrying loop, the latter with blue roundels below the curved top and with pink beaded borders, each with skin fringe, mid 19th century
1m.20cm. and 54cm. long (2)

Provenance

Frederick Edwards

Lot Essay

Sold with a letter from Frederick Edwards to Reginald Scaife dated 20 October 1860, requesting him to send me out a good consignment of English Clothing consisting of Blue Serge Shirts. I enclose you a list of some of the articles ... I principally want the goods to take up in the Interior to trade with the Indians. and relating some of his adventures as a gold prospector on the Fraser River; and two other letters mentioning Edwards, both dated 1860

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