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LOT 1867

Sold for (Inc. bp): £143

MEDIEVAL LEAD PILGRIM'S HOLY WATER AMPULLA WITH CROWN
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (41 grams, 50 mm).

With lateral loop and low-profile crown detailing to one face with radiating lines below, linear decoration to the other. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found UK.
Property of a Worlingworth, Suffolk, UK, private collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
See Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, item 399, for type.

CONDITION
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