The lot features three antique exotic sand cast trade bead necklaces with one bearing a square copper colored metal marked on the back as, “United States of America Peace and Friendship Trade and Trust 1798”. The front shows a highly embossed / raised detailed design showing an early bust of a Native American Indian in a frame with wonderful flourishes surrounding. This exact image was used for early 1800’s and Civil War ambrotype and tin type picture cases sometimes referred to as gutta-percha cases. Another example with the same stampings on the back was found in another auction and later in the mid-1900’s a company reproduced the image on a belt buckle. The metal has a copper color and is not magnetic, likely a pewter of sorts. The sand cast beads first originated in Ghana during the 16th-century showing crushed glass held together with a binder of saliva or gum Arabic. All three of the necklaces are strung on a woven grass strand. The originality and age of the metal is unknown but the necklaces show an antique age. Metal by itself is 2-inhces by 1.75-inches. Longest necklace strand is 27-inches in circumference approximately.