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LOT 2258
Medieval Lead Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampulla
CIRCA 15TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (49 grams, 54 mm).
With low-relief crowned rosette on a crosshatched field to obverse, vertical hatching to reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Lincolnshire, UK.
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