| Creator |
Duffield, Edward, 1730-1803, engraver. |
| Contributor |
Richardson, Joseph, 1711-1784, struck by. |
| Title |
Peace Medal (From the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians). |
| Date |
1757 |
| Physical Description |
Silver. |
| Is referenced by |
Library Company of Philadelphia. Quarter of a Millennium. Philadelphia: Library Company, 1981, p. 315. |
|
Stiefel, Jay R. “A Clock for the Rooms: the Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia,” Antiquarian Horology
29 (6) (2006): 23-24.
|
| Notes |
Presentation medal with the bust of King George II on the obverse and, on the reverse, a Quaker man holding a peace pipe at
a council fire with a Native American man. Duffield, a clockmaker, engraved the die; the silversmith Richardson struck it.
It was the first peace medal made in America. Benjamin Franklin and members of the Friendly Association would distribute these
medals to Native Americans as tokens of goodwill.
|
|
Exhibited in: Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007); Library Company's exhibition, Quarter of a Millennium
(1981).
|
| Subject |
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 -- Portraits. |
|
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. |
|
Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures. |
|
Calumets. |
|
Indians of North America. |
|
Indigenous peoples. |
|
Quakers. |
| Genre |
Commemorative medal. |
| Location |
OBJ 873 |
| Accession number |
OBJ 873 |
