Bagpipe-playing boars on cheap badges
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 41). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Best supported
Date or witness: Badge examples c.1375–1450
Region: England and Low Countries
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1375 CE to 1450 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A boar playing bagpipes becomes a repeated wearable design.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Several Dutch finds repeat the design; an Amsterdam badge dates to 1375–1450. A manuscript variant omits the phallus.
What remains uncertain
Repeated inexpensive objects support popular adoption. Their makers, individual wearers and direction of borrowing are not fully recoverable.
Candidate-index family 6: Bagpipe-playing boars on cheap badges
The workbook groups records 41 here and rates the family Best supported. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Badge examples c.1375–1450
Region: England and Low Countries
Shortlist uncertainty: Repeated inexpensive objects support popular adoption. Their makers, individual wearers and direction of borrowing are not fully recoverable.
Workbook revision note: Narrowed to a better-evidenced form; original ID retained