Secular pewter badge: Lovers token, Hand with True love

• Time period:15th to 16th Century
• Origin: England
• Materials: Pewter
• Product Dimensions: 3.5cm width x 3.5cm height.

Further details:

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.

 

Period: 1400 - 1500 AD