Medieval 'Walsingham' Pewter Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampulla

14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

1 7/8 in. (38.1 grams, 48 mm).

With flared mouth and two lateral handles, bulb with IHS' on a hatched fiel to obverse, 'W' within a ring to reverse. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Essex, UK.
Property of an Essex collector.

Literature

Cf. Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, London, 1986, item 399, for similar.

CONDITION

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