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LOT 1878
Medieval Lead Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampulla
15TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (33 grams, 51 mm).
With lateral loops and low-profile cross to obverse, reverse with 'W' on a hatched field for Walsingham shrine. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Gloucestershire, UK.
Acquired from the early 1980s.
From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
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The 'Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem' was an order of knighthood under the protection of the Pope, formed around 1099 AD by Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade. It was established for the protection of pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land and was recognised by a Papal Bull in about 1113 AD.
