Lead flask of a pilgrim

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Lead flask of a pilgrim

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A lead flask of a pilgrim for holy water. One face is decorated with a shell motif, the other with floral decoration. The flask has two angular handles, such flasks were simply used as souvenirs pinned onto hats or clothes or were used to hold holy water to or from pilgrimage sites.

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