15th century AD. A wooden board fashioned into Gothic tracery with three applied pewter pilgrim's badges; the upper left badge from the Marian shrine of Meerveldhoven, shaped as a medallion with central dividing inscription 'Maria te Merefelt', the lower section with two pilgrims standing in devotion before a statue of the crowned Virgin, the upper section with Tree of Life(?), above the medallion a cathedral in Gothic style, divided in five naves with a believer praying inside the main nave; to the upper right hand corner the badge of the Holy Blood of Boxtel, depicting priest Eligius holding an altar cloth with a chalice; the lower badge from s'-Hertogenbosch, shaped as a medallion with foliage, depicting Mary and St John the Evangelist, a transport ship beneath a Gothic cathedral, the central part with a leg, a hammer and pliers. Cf. van Beuningen, H.J.E. & Koldeweij, A.M., Heilig en Profaan. 1000 laatmiddeleeuwse insignes uit de collectie H.J.E. van Beuningen Rotterdam Papers 8, Cothen, 1993, pp.143, 221-224; van Beuningen, H.J.E. & Koldeweij, A.M., Heilig en Profaan 2. 1200 laatmiddeleeuwse insignes uit openbare en particuliere collecties Rotterdam Papers 12, Cothen, 2001, pp.336-337, 388-389; Blick, S., 'Bringing Pilgrimage Home: The Production, Iconography, and Domestic Use of Late-Medieval Devotional Objects by Ordinary People' in Religions 10, 392, 2019, pp.1-26 and p.3, for a similar piece.645 grams, 24.5cm (9 3/4"). Property of an East Anglian collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s; found in a sunken boat in a Dutch canal; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10399-169276.