United States. A Rare 1857 James Buchanan Indian Peace Medal Auction Archive The thick blackened-brown leather washer

The thick blackened-brown leather washer at the crossguard junction sits firmly in place

and two Volunteer Combatant's Crosses

and silver aluminum wire elements

and include denting and loss of paint to the shell

before being discharged upon demobilization on August 24

United States. A Rare 1857 James Buchanan Indian Peace Medal Auction Archive The thick blackened-brown leather washerIn solid silver, a first size medal, obverse presenting a high relief right facing bust of James Buchanan, surrounded by the inscription JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and dated 1857 at 6 o'clock, the reverse center presents a scene of a horse pulling a plow with figures playing baseball, a house and church in the background, around the outside presents two Native figures engaging in a violent act, with a quiver of arrows below on the