15th century Love Token

Lover’s token given and worn as a sign of love – this  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.

pewter replica of 15th century original

approx 4 cm long