Medieval Lead Votive Seal Matrix with Hand

14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

1 in. (9.75 grams, 26.8 mm).

Discoid in plan with lug to reverse; central motif of an open hand with legend to the border '* S WATMER[..]CHAPMAN' (seal of Walter Chapman). [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the later Peter Hooper Pewter and Lead collection, who was a guest lecturer at West Dean College and was a longtime member of the Pewter Society who contributed to the Pewter Society Magazine.

Footnotes

Because such surnames were still meaningfully ‘occupational’ at this period, and ‘chapman’ means ‘(small-scale) seller/tradesman’, it may well be that Walter made his living from selling gloves.

CONDITION

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LOT 1815