painted pewter tokens/badges?

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painted pewter tokens/badges?

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I have just made these for a deed of arms

What do we know about painted tokens or badges
in the mid/late 14th century ( Europe centered )
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nice!

What did you use for the "enamel"?
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InsaneIrish wrote:nice!

What did you use for the "enamel"?


Testors enamel paint... ( model paint )

http://www.testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=2212
Baron Conal O'hAirt

Aude Aliquid Dignum Dare Something Worthy

“Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make-
Ere life has flown-
A stumbling block
Or a stepping stone”

― R L Sharpe
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