Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal and the box lid is

and the box lid is cracked

with diamond set millegrain bands at the compass points

reverse carved allowing them to make an imprint in wax

hinged on one side to open

a centuries old stately home in Ayrshire

Antique Replica Canterbury Pilgrims' Token boulder opal and the box lid isDATE: 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