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Chinese coin charm, with circular hole at centre. Obverse depicts a tiger within foliage, reverse depicts a figure on the right hand side holding a flag, and four vertical chinese characters to the left.

Scare-devil in cloth and wood. Used to scare away evil eye from bee hives.

Double, figure of, perforated for suspension

Pears soap.

Votive offerings dedicated for sickness of the part represented, for a cure when ill.

Image of a plague doctor – frontispiece from Jean-Jacques Manget, Traité de la peste: recueilli des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modernes, et enrichi de remarques et observations théoriques et pratiques : avec une table très ample des matières…