- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, oval brass medal with a face on each side. [MJD (Verve) 12/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1910
- Date collected
- ?Siena 1910
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Process Struck
- Dimensions
- Length: max 31 mm, Thick: max 2 mm, Length: max 28 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.82
Search terms: Insignia, Religion, Ornament, Children and Childcare, Figure, Amulet, Medal, Religious Object
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