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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]
ProvenanceFound Lincolnshire, UK.
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Medieval Lead Pilgrim's Pendant with Calvary and Dragon-Slaying
14th-15th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Discoid in plan with bifacial low-relief imagery: Obverse - Calvary scene with Corpus Christi and flanking mourners; Reverse - hatched field with supine dragon, triumphant robed and crowned figure holding aloft a cross piercing the dragon's mouth. 5.63 grams, 28 mm
From a retired Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman's collection, a long time member of the Pewter Society.
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