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LOT 1323
Late Medieval Silver Ring with Star of David
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (5.25 grams, 23.41 mm overall, 19.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
Square bezel with hatched panels and central incised six-pointed star.
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market around 2000.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 585, for type.
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LOT 1323
Late Medieval Silver Ring with Star of David
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
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Opening Bid: £400
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Apart from badges as souvenirs of visits to various saints’ shrines, pilgrims might also bear away with them various noise-making items such as horns, whistles, rattles and bells. The miniature horn-shaped lead whistles known from London and Salisbury bear various inscriptions including bla me [blow me] and ave maria. In the contemporary ‘morality’ play Mankind (c.1465-70) of East Anglian provenance, the character Nought says I kan pype in a Walsyngham wystyll, which suggests that such souvenir whistles were available from the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham too, and that already such ‘tourist’ trinkets were regarded as a proverbial type of worthlessness, ‘not worth a whistle’, indeed.
