Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Badge with Saint Edmund

14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

2 1/8 in. (7.6 grams, 55 mm).

Modelled as a standing crowned and bearded figure in ankle-length robe holding a large arrow point-downwards; pin to reverse. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a retired Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman's collection, a long time member of the Pewter Society.

Literature

Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, item 247, for type.

Footnotes

The legend of King (later Saint) Edmund was celebrated in medieval England. The king refused to submit to the Danes, who tied him to a tree and shot him with arrows thus providing him with holy martyrdom.

CONDITION

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