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  • Human figure, with hands and feet shackled, its body incorporating a mandala (?). Ink drawing, Tibet, 1850/1910?.
  • Chinese woodcut: Talisman against epidemic diseases
  • Medical talisman for menstrual problems (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman for irregular menstruation (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman for menstrual flooding (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman against miscarriage (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman for complicated labour (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman for infertility and miscarriage (Chinese MS)
  • 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.
  • Egyptian talismans
  • 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.
  • Holy wheel or Carillon, 'The Rose of fortune'.
  • 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