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LOT 1493
Tudor Double Rose Pewter Retainer's Badge
16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (7.1 grams, 33 mm).
Discoid plaque with impressed Tudor rose motif; short brass pin to reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound on the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
From a North London, UK, collection.
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
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