Allegorical panel /souvenier for a Yuletide feast.

Modelled after hagiographical panel tokens, (See various saints lives panels, Spencer, Egan et al) but adapted to the theme of the event.

The Holly king and the Oak king do battle while watched by the four worthies of the principality.

Carved in Kisii stone, cast in pure tin intitally.

40g per piece, 95mm wide by 93mm tall.

Once the mould was finished, the actual casting of the tokens took about 2mins 15sec per piece all told. Including set-up, casting, clipping, and clean-up.

Production of the mould from cutting & dressing the stone to the beginning of the first easy production run took about 50 hours of work.

Brickwork, Gothic arch and wave patern detailing on the framework after the St Thomas Billlingsgate badge.

(see Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, Brian Spencer, Museum of London, fig 123b, British Museum, medieval and later antiquities, 1984, 5-5,2)

this is the first pre production Eureka cast, (ie everything cast though with a lot of flashing, due to a mould handling error, which was cleaned up post casting.)

Surface pitting on the demi sun was resolved in subsequent casts by addition of some geometric patterning on the sun.

Once the mould was fine tuned, pieces cast with no cleanup requirement beyond clipping the sprue. - occasional small bits of flashing and minor casting flaws, but well within the tolerances of extant pieces.

and the final finished version

showing the back

and with the rake sprue.

The Mould

and showing the vent exits on one side.