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LOT 2225
Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Horn Badge of Saint Hubert
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (5.84 grams, 44 mm).
A devotional badge in the shape of a hunting horn with two loops and a cord. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a retired Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman's collection, a long time member of the Pewter Society.
Footnotes
Saint Hubert was a 7th century French nobleman and keen hunter who had chased a stag with a crucifix in its antlers. The stag told him to adopt a religious life, and Hubert went on to become Bishop of Liège in Belgium in the early 8th century. His shrine was at Saint-Hubert-en-Ardenne in Belgium.
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