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LOT 1347
Medieval Gold Scallop Shell of St James Pilgrim's Badge
CIRCA 14TH CENTURY A.D.
1/4 in. (0.42 grams, 9.89 mm).
With rib detailing and attachment loop to the reverse; associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, items 51-6, for pewter examples.
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LOT 1347
Medieval Gold Scallop Shell of St James Pilgrim's Badge
Sold for (Inc. bp): £371
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Medieval Bronze Vesica-Shaped Seal Matrix with Mary and Child
Circa 13th-15th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
With central 'Virgin standing holding child' motif, linear border and legend '+ + AVE MARIA GRA.PLENA. DNS TECV'' (Hail mary full of Grace, the Lord [be] with you); loop to the reverse. 4.2 grams, 26 mm
Found Southern England. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. -
Medieval and Later Artefact Group
Circa 12th-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising a quantity of mixed items including a large bell, buckles, coins, buttons, and others, most fragmentary. 732 grams total, 10-57 mm
Found St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK. Acquired from the finder in 2008. Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman. -
Medieval Terracotta Pilgrim's Horn
Circa 15th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Formed with a slightly curved profile and with suspension loops; buff-coloured. 298 grams, 26.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
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.
