Dug Fur Trade Silver Copper Pin Brooch Indian Artifact

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Dug Fur Trade Silver Copper Pin Brooch Indian Artifact

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Sold Date: 03/05/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

DUG UPPER GREAT LAKES FUR TRADE COPPER Pin Brooch

This rare pin brooch is one of the earlier examples of this artifact type for the Upper Great Lakes trade and would date to the 1600's or the early 1700's. It is about 1 3/8 inches wide and the center hole is about 5/8 inch. It is dome shaped.

This piece was fashioned from thick copper unlike the later thin sheet silver pins that became a popular trade item in the Upper Great Lakes about 1760. Under magnification it appears that it had been silver plated.

I dug this relic years ago at Point aux Pins, near the entrance to Lake Superior on the St. Mary's River about 4 miles above the rapids at the historic twin cities of Sault Ste. marie Michigan and Ontario. You will find written records of Point aux Pins in the Jesuit Relations and in the journals of every early trader or traveler that went up into Lake Superior.

The Sault first showed up on Champlain's 1632 map of New France as Sault du Gaston, named by Etienne Brule in honor of the brother of the French King.Father Marquette founded the first permanent Jesuit mission in the region at the Sault in 1689. It was later relocated to the Staits of Mackinaw at St. Ignace due to an out break of trouble with the Iroquois.

Lois Denis Sieur de la Ronde established a ship yard at Pointe aux Pins and built the first decked vessel to sail on Lake Superior from in 1735.

Artifacts from prehistoric times and from all periods of the Fur Trade have been found (see Conway, Thor A., "Heartland of the Ojibway" and "Point aux Pins Archaeology", Archaeological Research Report 13, Historic Planning and Research Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation, Toronto, 1980).

This relic is in excellent dug condition as found and uncleaned with good patina. T are no breaks or cracks. However the fastening pin is missing.

I have a low starting price with no reserve.

As with all my personal found relics, it is guaranteed to be authentic and as described.

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