breastplate
breastplate
breastplate
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Breast plates, 3 silver gorgets, linked together with skin thong. Upper gorget has maker's mark "RC", (Robert Cruickshank, Montreal silversmith 1779-1809), and is engraved with figure of a deer. Other 2 gorgets are of simple hammered silver.;;
1780 C;;
Provenance
(from Speyer, via T. Brasser) formerly inthe collection of Sir John Caldwell. Caldwell was 5th Baronet, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He served from 1774-1780 during the American Revolution as an officer in the 8th Regiment on Foot. He was stationed briefly at Niagara, then sent to Fort Detroit. Was made a chief of the Ojibwa and given the name Appato, The Runner. Took part in a council at the Shawnee village of Wakeetomike on Jan. 17,1780; and supposedly councilled with Munsee, Delaware, Iroquois, Shawnee, Huron,Illini. A few pieces from his collection are in the Liverpool Mus.