St Andrew's Cross Badge or medal - anyone know what organisation?

[PaddyB]

Third and final one from this group of oddities is this badge or medal. I assume it is a St Andrew's and it is a shame about the damage to the enamel, but does anyone know which organisation issued this? It is about 1.5 inches tall.

 

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[A2coins]

Thats a cool piece I have a piece that looks just like the gold colored piece

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice find Paddy, although a little confusing!

The hanger hole is 180 degrees off. St Andrew was crucified upside down!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

That was St. Peter (who was crucified upside down).

 

[HuntinDog]

I can't tell you anything about it but i would say it's a pendent.

 

[Mackaydon]

My belief is that St. Andrew was crucified by being bound (tied) to the cross, not nailed.
Don........

 

[PaddyB]

Yes it is believed he was bound instead of nailed to the cross. The tradition has also grown up that the cross was in the form of an X instead of a +, though this is possibly apocryphal. Certainly the X shaped cross or Saltire is generally termed St Andrew's cross, and both St Andrew and the Saltire are associated with Scotland.

 

[A2coins]

Bot no one can get that one right lol

 

[Reanm8er]

Forgive me Gentlemen, I stand corrected! Apparently I've confused my Saints. Most of what I thought I knew about St. Andrew was regarding the symbology of the cross on the Confederate Battle flag.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Cool. It’s a Masonic ‘jewel’ for members of the St. Andreas (St Andrew) Lodge Fidelis in Hamburg, one of the Provincial Lodges of Lower Saxony as a subsidiary of the Grand National Lodge of Freemasons of Germany. Some of these jewels have ‘1717’ on the back, which is presumably the foundation date for the organisation, although the medals themselves date from the second half of the 1800s through to the pre-WWII 1900s. Take some of the fleabay prices being asked with a large pinch of salt.

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