Although it is fitted with four sewing rings at the corners, there is also an image on the
Reverse of this badge, which we suggest be named Forgeais 2-29 :

(Forgeais' illustrations appear to be woodcuts, presumably accurate representations
of the aritifacts found, but the reliability of his reproductions must be subject
to individual assessment.
Apparently at least two of his Chatres badges were lost in the fire which destroyed
the Hôtel de Ville in Paris during the Commune uprising of 1870.)

A very similar badge, found in the river Thames, was published over
a hundred years later by Brian Spencer.

Spencer239b (obverse) :


This very interesting badge is discussed further here.

This very interesting badge is discussed further here.

Also presumed to be from the 13th century, the badge we have styled Forgeais 4-118:

was also published by Ad. Lococq in 1876.

  Arthur Forgeais, a nineteenth century Parisian merchant, was the Godfather of Pilgrims' souviner collection in France, if not in all of Europe.
  During the course of dredging operations in the Seine near his shop in the 1860s he monitored the work as it progressed and paid the workers engaged in it to extract from the detritus of their excavations any signifant artifacts they found. The result was a massive collection of thousands of "souvenirs," coins, and manys sorts of items. Many (though not all) of these were subsequently privately published by him in several volumes entitled Collection de Plombs Historiés trouvés dans la Seine, in at least four "série". The Chartres-related souvenirs were published here:

Arthur Forgeais, Collection de Plombs Historiés trouvés dans la Seine, Quatrième série: Imagerie Religieuse. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1865. [Not noted in van der Meulen's exhaustive Bibliography.]

  The local Chartain historian Adolphe Lecocq, in a general discussion of the question of pilgrimage at Chartres in an article published in the journal of the local archeological society, discussed the artifacts found by Forgeis, and added others :

Ad[dophe]. Lecocq. "Recherches sur les Ensignes de Pélerinages et les Chemisettes de Notre-Dame de Chartres," Mémoires de la Socièté archeologique d'Eure-et-Loir, VI, 1876, pp. 194-242. [van der Meulen *779]

   The erudite Anglo-American independent scholar Pippin Michelli has provided us with a brief but brilliant summary of the history and historiography of the several pilgrims' badges from Chartres, in both an article published in a young but promising periodical devoted to "Pilgrimage Arts" (now available in a .pdf file on-line) and in a fine paper read at the International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2001 :

Pippin Michelli, "A Gordian Knot: Notes on Chartres Pilgrim Badges", in Perigrinations. Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Arts, I, ii, July 2002, pp. 2-4. (http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol1-2.pdf)

  The foremost British authority on pilgrim souvenirs was the late Brian Spencer, who, in one of his last publications, collected a large number of these artifacts in an exhaustive catalogue of them found in the London area:

Brian Spencer, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. London: Stationery Office, 1998.

 
 Note that all of the images of these badges which we reproduce here are .jpgs scanned from photocopies of printed sources of woodcuts made from drawings of the originals.

In other words, we have this stemma of our images :
  original badge >
  19th c. drawing >
  19th c. woodcut >
  19th c. publication >
  20th c. photocopy >  
  21st c. scan >
  21st c. web page