
Gordon Mcfarlan
Director
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These diminutive medallions are known in collecting circles as 'tongue pieces' and are known in gold, silver gilt and now, in horn. It is thought that they were concealed in the mouth to avoid detection. Equally they may have been designed to have been mounted in rings worn by adherents to the Jacobite cause.
(Cf: Wolf's Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement, 60:2) MI 601-253.