Description:

This is a presumably contemporary medallion that shows an oval design with three-dimensional beaver marked on the front Hudson Bay Company and The medallion Pewter or a heavy bronze or brass solid casting and is strung on Indian brain tanned hide lace stranded with Large HB Red/Yellow core Beads and Crow Glass beads and a Large Brick Stipe Bead showing a Beaver on the Pendant marked HB

Native American Necklace. HB Hudson Bay and hallmark,

This type of fur trade era, totems, were given to the Hudson's Bay Company fur traders, Indians, and trappers who went deep into the wilderness to trap furs. This type trade good was highly prized by the trappers, Indians, and fur traders.

The Hudson's Bay (Fur) Company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670. The company functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America for nearly 200 years until the Hudson's Bay Company sold the land it owned (the entire Hudson Bay drainage basin, known as Rupert's Land) to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. During its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English, and later British, controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine home ware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) across Canada.