19th century AD. A pewter vessica-shaped medal of bifacial type, the front with the figure of the armoured St Michael spearing a dragon, surrounded by the legend 'CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY'; the reverse flat and bearing a central expanding-arm cross with foliage between, surrounded by the legend 'WHETHER YE EAT OR DRINK DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD'; a paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 10:31 'Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God'. 3.42 grams, 26mm (1"). Acquired from his grandfather in the 1990s. Property of an Essex collector. [No Reserve]