Secular Badges
Secular badges were popular in the medieval period as either lover’s tokens or livery badges. All of the badges below are accurate copies of surviving pewter artefacts. For information on the history of secular badges please refer to the ‘History’ section of the website.
S35 - Lovers Token
This lovers token depicts a hand wearing a double banded lover’s or gimmel ring and proffering a bunch of quatrefoil flowers, symbolic of the truelove or Herb Paris. The truelove was the ultimate lover’s flower of the middle ages and as a pewter badge would have been given and worn as a symbol of love.
15th – 16th century.
35X 35mm. A hand proffering a bunch of truelove flowers.
15th – 16th century.
35X 35mm. A hand proffering a bunch of truelove flowers.
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£6.00
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