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Brass badge

Item Code DG 114

A brass badge showing a pelican in her piety feeding her offspring with her own blood. This may have been worn on a hat.

Object Details

Artist / Designer /Maker Unknown

Object Type Personal Ornamentation

Materials Metal

Video

Registration Numbers

DG 114

Knowndates

c. 1992

Archival Information

File of material relating to a pelican in piety insignia. Includes photocopy of image of object which also notes some basic information about it, namely, object, medium and period (date unspecified); photocopy of extract from publication by Stephen Friar entitled ‘Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist’ (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992). Explains the significance of the heraldic pelican.

Size

2 items