Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token vesta case set in silver

set in silver

fully charged with romantic sentiment

one brooch has had the fittings replaced

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Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token vesta case set in silverDATE: Antique, c. 1920 A large lead token depicting S. Thomas Becket giving a blessing in full Archbishop vestiges riding a horse. Lettering to the reverse states: CANTERBURY PILGRIMS' TOKEN St THOMAS A BECKET CAST FROM THE ORIGINAL MOULD IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM These tokens (the originals, I mean) would have been carried by pilgrims and were often ritually thrown into the river Thames on completion of their pilgrimage to Beckets shrine in Canterbury