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LOT 1795
Medieval Bronze Sun, Moon and Star Retainer's Badge
14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (6.15 grams, 33 mm).
Lancastrian retainer's badge or mount with 'sun, moon and star' emblem. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
Literature
See Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim and Secular Badges, London, 1986, p.195, for similar pewter examples.
Footnotes
The 'star and crescent' (sun, moon and star) symbols were a traditional badge of the Plantagenets during the period from Richard I to Edward I and were also popular in the 14th century.
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