Sterling St. Christopher Medallion

[JCinNJ]

Here is the St. Christopher medallion I mentioned earlier in my silver dime trifecta post.
My guess is that it is at least 50 years old based on the age of the coins I was finding around it.
I googled Theda and found it was a brand name used by the Ideal Manufacturing out of Providence Rhode Island since 1921.

It looks prettier in real life than scanned but I am going to try to get that last bit of rust stain off.

I figured it was worth about $3.00 for the silver but vintage religious medals of that size are selling between $35 and $100.

HH!

JCinNJ

 

[mikewaz]

Nice finds!
I found 2 WWII religious medals about a month ago that are in beautiful shape. I had no idea there was a collectors market for them. I'll have to look into that.
Good Luck!
Mike

 

[haylen]

Nice Medallion I just found one they are pretty cool

 

[tymcmurray]

Stil on my list.
Great find!

Ty

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[Knightwalker]

Nice find. I can believe it's 50 or so old. I remeber around 50 years ago when I was a lad, I had one of those medals and wore it to bed. Almost killed myself, lucky my mom was awake and came in and unwraped it from around my neck. I don't remember what happen to mine. Either lost it somewhere or put it up in my box of stuff and mom gave it to my nephews.
HH in 2010

 

[seger98]

Nice find!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Whats with the rust pealing off the back ? Is that plating and, whats it say under the Sterling?

I love those metals, precious metals or not.

Great find !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[JCinNJ]

Whats with the rust pealing off the back ? Is that plating and, whats it say under the Sterling?

I love those metals, precious metals or not.

Great find !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

The medal was found in a highly mineralized area. It was black when I found it. It's just trace rust from mineralization. It says "Theda" under sterling, a brand name used by the Ideal Manufacturing out of Providence Rhode Island since 1921.

 

[warsawdaddy]

I hate to hear that 50yrs is vintage.Guess I'm vintage and a half!I wore a medal just like that from the late 40's til about 12yr ago when the 'eye' wore through and the jeweler said it couldn't be repaired.I have a different style now(still St Chris)but I need to get it coated with rhodium or it'll turn black on me.Very nice find.