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LOT 1649
French Medieval Copper-Alloy Pilgrim Badge
16TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
1 1/4 in. (7.28 grams, 32 mm high).
High-tinned with a flat-section octofoil body, engraved with three nimbate figures in a boat, including one female figure holding a lantern, a standing male in loose sleeved robe and a third seated in the stern wielding an oar; stars in the sky above.
Provenance
Old European collection, circa 1990s.
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