PA WN BROKER'S SIGN.
The three balls, so well k'jown as the pawnbroker's tigc, were originally tbe arms of tbe Medici family, the earlieet and most important of ibe money-lenders of Lombardy. The three balls were first used in England by the agent of that family, and were afterwards copied by others. They represent three gilded pills ; and were ÜBed by the Medici id allusion to tho profession of medicine, in which that family wns eminent, and from which they derived their name.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 53
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83PAWNBROKER'S SIGN. Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 53
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