Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal Edwardian circa 1910

Edwardian circa 1910

Glass on one side is cracked

and fittings screw into the back for wear as a brooch

Birmingham 1963

Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal Edwardian circa 1910DATE: 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