Extant pomander beads or Bisamapfel

While rummaging around today, I ran across several extant pomander beads or the large metal beads at the end of the paternosters so commonly seen in 15-16th c. German artwork.
They are cataloged under the name "Bisamapfel"

Here's a pretty one from the end of the 15th c.
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/kataloge/14/html/1191.htm

RealOnline has a couple of others, but I can't link to them directly. They are record #'s 009534 and 009537
To get to them, go to this page, http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/ and enter the entire number including the zeros into the text box below, then click Zeige Bilder, this will pull up that record.



[Cross posted to the Paternosters Yahoo group]

New material object resource

As some of you may know by now, I like extant objects, and artwork. RealOnline is one of my favorite places to browse because you never know what you are going to find.

Today I found, via Karan Larsdatter's page, http://www.larsdatter.com, another Austrian site with cool stuff on it.

http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/

Its got some great stuff on there. :)