Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal hinged on one side to

hinged on one side to open

Birmingham 1963

with the bicycle trade one of the few parts of the economy to display continued growth with people buying bicycles "whether they could afford them or not"

and fittings screw into the back for wear as a brooch

a centuries old stately home in Ayrshire

Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal hinged on one side toDATE: 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