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From: Ray Williams <njraywms@optonline.net>
Subject: A fun colonial side study
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Good morning guys!
I just thought of taking a minute to share a side colonial interest
of mine that I'm having fun with. Most of us have an area or two that
we specialize in collecting. Others are type collectors. But our
earliest colonial commerce was with the Native Americans. So I have
added to my colonial collection a beaver pelt, a couple musket balls
(traded at a farthing each), genuine wampum (not all Native American
beads are wampum - they are very specific), Dutch beads meant for trade
with Native Americans, tobacco, silver... At EAC I added four pieces of
copper to my collection. Two were copper discs rolled into a tube and
strung as beads. The other two were again copper discs rolled into
cone-shaped beads, which were worn as hair decorations. The copper for
these beads most likely followed native American trade routes from
Indian copper mines in Michigan, which had been in operation for
hundreds (thousands) of years before the arrival of the Europeans. To
go along with these trade items, I just purchased some raw copper from
where these mines are located. I even have some cocoa beans, which the
Incas and Aztecs valued in trade more than money. I understand that
cocoa was so valuable, that it was even "counterfeited"!!! A bean would
be drilled out and filled with clay!
Well, The coffee is done dripping, back to work. Y'all have a
great day and a fun/safe holiday weekend!
Does anyone else have some colonial collection that is not among the
mainstream of our hobby?
Ray - 2013-05-24
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