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LOT 2287
Tudor Period Pewter Pilgrim's Pendant with Bishop
16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (6 grams, 33 mm).
Bifacial low-relief design; obverse: Corpus Christi amid scrolls on foliate cross; reverse: nimbate bishop in three-quarter view with crozier, legend to the circular band. [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 909, for type.
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