Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Badge Group

14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

5/8 - 1 1/4 in. (17.1 grams total, 16-32 mm).

Comprising: a spoked wheel; disc with hand motif; crescent moon and standing figure; hollow-formed ampulla junction; disc with rosette and legend '+SA[NCT]E THOMA OR[A] P[RO] M[E]'; plus a finger-ring with red enamel fill to the openwork bezel. [6]

Provenance

Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021).
Collected in the 1990s from the UK art market.
with Bonham's, London, UK, 7 July 2022, lot 117 (part).
Ex property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.

Literature

The disc identical with Spencer, B., Pilgrims and Secular Badges, London, 1998, no.134.

CONDITION

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