CODE | Material |
Standard
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Price | |
oR0557 | see description | Hand-made | 10.00 EUR |
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How old?: 1375-1425.
Finding place: Nieuwlande (the Netherlands), London.
Details: h.: 47mm w. 23mm.
Meaning: It's hard to figure out meaning of this badge. It could have been a reward in
archery competition or perhaps it was worn by members of some shooters brotherhood or
maybe archers company. It also might have been just a simple picture of favourite sport.
This pattern is replica of finding from Nieuwlande.
Pewter badges were first introduced as pilgrim souvenirs from different places of
Christian cult around Europe and the Holy Land. The earliest findings of this type comes from
about second half of XII th. century, fall of their popularity is beginning of XVI th. century.
They're closely connected with development of pilgrimages among Christians. Pilgrim
badges were a solid prove of finishing a long journey to places were once saints lived. About
XIV th. century secular badges also appeared.
ATTENTION: dates showed in this catalogue tells only how old was the material used for the
original. It doesn't mean that the badge was used only then.
The pewter badges as well as their descriptions are provided to us by Bartosz So³tysiak who bases them on historical sources.