Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal with diamond set millegrain bands

with diamond set millegrain bands at the compass points

Birmingham 1963

Edwardian circa 1910

and fittings screw into the back for wear as a brooch

Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal with diamond set millegrain bandsDATE: 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