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  • Medical talisman for gestation and puerperium (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman against miscarriage (Chinese MS)
  • St. Benedict's penny. On one side a representation of the Saint.
  • Machabei cross, protective cross. Both sides shown (Hebrew characters).
  • Suppenbrunnzer, dove of the Holy Spirit.
  • A bird. Distemper painting, 1905.
  • Dyptych reliquary.
  • Contents of a Breverl, showing the emblems of various Saints.
  • Pilgrim's token, a blue bottle showing a little chapel. Formerly contained St. Wolfgang's water. The bottle was covered with water-paint in order to show the design, when the lantern slide was made.
  • Scheyrer cross, a double cross with lettering.
  • Necklet of the vertebrae of an adder hung with 3 medallions.
  • Walpurgis oil, amulet.
  • Pendant of ivory of Madonna and Child.
  • Breverl, on one side the letters IHS.
  • Zachariah's cross. A double cross, on one side side Zacharias and his blessing, on the other St. Benedict and the lettering of the cross of St. Benedict. Protection against the plague.
  • Copy of a 'wunder brief' said to be written by God.
  • St. Sebastian's Arrow with the letters IHS.
  • 3 identical silver coins joined to form triangle. On one side are three little men.
  • The case of artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • The case of artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open)
  • A memento mori, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Image shows coffin only)
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • A memento mori statue, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin.
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book