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THREE 17TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS BADGES
One small gold example pierced with black and white initials IHS, with pendant pearl, 2.0cm wide, a rectangular gilt-metal openwork pendant with initials STMA below crown enamelled in black, white and blue (back deficient), Spanish, 6.4cm. wide, and an oval metal example with rayed edged set with a later miniature of St. Barbara, 8.0cm. high
The small IHS badge is probably from a rosary cf. M.C. Di Natale, Ori e Argenti di Sicilia, Exhibition Catalogue 1989, no.34. For the STMA badge cf. E. Steinbgraber, Antique Jewellery, 1957, no.238
$800-900 (3)
One small gold example pierced with black and white initials IHS, with pendant pearl, 2.0cm wide, a rectangular gilt-metal openwork pendant with initials STMA below crown enamelled in black, white and blue (back deficient), Spanish, 6.4cm. wide, and an oval metal example with rayed edged set with a later miniature of St. Barbara, 8.0cm. high
The small IHS badge is probably from a rosary cf. M.C. Di Natale, Ori e Argenti di Sicilia, Exhibition Catalogue 1989, no.34. For the STMA badge cf. E. Steinbgraber, Antique Jewellery, 1957, no.238
$800-900 (3)