Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

North American Indian Chief’s Medal, George III (Jamieson Fig. 18), silver, 76.6mm, fitted with original riveted ornamented suspension loop, edge bruise, otherwise better than very fine and rare £7000-8000

Medals from this issue were distributed to North American Indian Chief’s from 1776 until 1814. They were very much ‘war’ medals rather than commemorative medals and they attracted influential Indians throughout what is now Canada and the United States of America to the British cause.

A similar example was sold by Bowers & Merena in March 2001, from The Cabinet of Lucien M. LaRiviere (Part II, Lot 2013, $21,850).