CODE | Material |
Standard
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Price | |
oR0569 | see description | Hand-made | 11.50 EUR |
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How old?: 1375-1425.
Finding place: Amsterdam.
Details: h.: 49mm, w.: 42mm
Meaning: You can see whole family here. Child is spining a broach, mother is doing
something with kettle and father stands and watches. It's difficult to say, but probably it shows "reverse of powers" in the world. Popular motif at the end of middle ages, when people
believed that the end of the world is near (but it is possible that it have another "rude"
meaning).
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.