Pilgrim's Badge with Saints Peter and Paul
13th-15th century (Medieval)
1 5/16 x 1 9/16 in., 1/8 in. (3.4 x 4 cm, 0.3 cm)
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Lead badges such as this one were purchased by pilgrims as mementos of holy sites they had visited. The tokens could also be infused with sanctity through being blessed or touched to a shrine. Originally there were loops at top and bottom for the pilgrim to sew the badges onto...
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Piero Tozzi, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, September 19, 1945, by purchase.
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en
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