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LOT 1545
Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Badge with Church
13TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (6 grams, 40 mm).
Styled as a church building surmounted by three crosses, raised hatching to one face and a scene depicting the Virgin and Child beneath a starry sky to the other; four attachment loops remaining. [No Reserve]
Provenance
European collection, 1990s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. the virtually identical Abb.1429 on p.343 of H.J.E. van Beuningen, A.M. Koldeweij & D. Kicken, Heilig en Profaan 2 1200 Laatmiddeleeuwse Insignes [Rotterdam Papers XII], Cothen, 2001, where dated to the 13th century.
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