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Quality pewter spoons will not tarnish like silver spoons. Our quality pewter salt bowls will not react with salt like silver salt bowls. Our contemporary pewter will not go grey like old pewter as it contains no lead. Silver gifts give the recipient a cleaning job, lead free pewter gifts do not. pewter boxes will not need polishing, silver boxes will. Glover and Smith contemporary pewter. High quality lead free pewter is eco friendly. Our designs are all made from 92% lead free pewter, making them all ideal tenth wedding anniversary gifts or tin anniversary gifts.
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Scallop shell boxes, pewter gifts handmade by Glover and Smith
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Inspired by nature, created by us!
The scallop shell is the traditional
emblem of Saint James.
Medieval Christian pilgrims often wore a
scallop shell symbol on their hat or clothes.
They also carried a scallop shell, and would
present themselves at churches, castles,
abbeys etc, where they could expect to be
given as much sustenance as they could
pick up with one scoop.
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The German word for scallop is Jakobsmuschel, in Swedish it literally translates to pilgrim mussel and in France the scallop is called a coquille St. Jacques, literally a St James shellfish.
Many paintings of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, included a scallop shell in the painting to identify her. This is most evident in Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, nicknamed "Venus on the half-shell".
The association of Saint James with the scallop can most likely be traced to the legend that the
apostle once rescued a knight covered in scallops. An alternate version of the legend holds that
while St. James' remains were being transported to Spain from Jerusalem, the horse of a knight
fell into the water, and emerged covered in the shells.
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