Pendant

Heart-shaped brooches were popular among the Iroquois. Design thought to have come from Scotland with Scottish traders. Double heart-shaped brooches known as Luckenbooth were often Scottish love tokens.

Collector states maker probably Arthur Powless and describes the hallmark as a crooked arrow. However, information linking him to the eel sign can be found in “The Covenant Chain:, pages 71-72. Arthur Powless makes for sale copies of artefacts which were used for fur trading in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He exhibits through Windsong Galleries, Mississauga, Ontario.

Art Market

Double heart-shaped brooch with heart-shaped central cutouts. Further small triangular cutouts at top and circular shapes around the top outside edge. Ring for suspension threaded through design hole.