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Rare Indian Treaty No. 3 Silver Medal, 1873

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Rare Indian Treaty No. 3 Silver Medal, 1873
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Proof silver medal 205.0g (76mm) by J.S & A.B Wyon (Jamieson 38). The Northwest Angle Treaty was imposed 3 October 1873 on Ojibway First Peoples to obtain 55,000 square miles from Lake Superior to Hudson's Bay close to the US border. The medal was offered on behalf of Queen Victoria to Nation Leaders who signed the Treaty. ​These historically important medals were gifts presented to Chiefs who entered into these Treaties in exchange for various goods and Indigenous rights to hunting, fishing and natural resources on reserve lands and offered a lasting visual reminder to all the participants of their treaty commitments. Queen Victoria crowned & veiled facing left, VICTORIA r., REGINA l.; Rx: Scene of a commissioner of the second rank standing facing right shaking hands with a Native facing left in full dress against a view of tepees and a rising sun. CNC recently sold an example without the prestige provenance of this example for $95,600. Ex: John J. Ford, Jr, Collection part XVIII, 22 May 2007 (lot 19) previously from Michael Kolman 24.12.1955 and earlier J.D Ferguson.