Todays goodies with a few questions

[baylorhall]

Today's goodies with a few questions

Found a '28 mercury and a few wheats today. Also a found a detailed suspender that I like. I'm not Catholic, but this heavy crucifix has what looks like a skull and crossbones at the bottom. Is that typical?? The jar lid has an embossed flower with leaves. Does anyone recognize it and know what it came from? Thanks!

 

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[wheatfinder13]

I am catholic and I've never seen a skull and crossbones on a crucifix but very cool well done

 

[SilverPirate]

Nice finds

 

[SilverPirate]

Looks like the crucifix is one that they use on a casket, or for family when someone dies.

 

[wheatfinder13]

Looks like the crucifix is one that they use on a casket, or for family when someone dies.

That's sounds true to me

 

[Terry Soloman]

Nice Finds!

 

[taz42o]

Heres some good info on those crosses.

Rosary Workshop: Rosary - Museum Crucifixes - (Early Latin American)

 

[baylorhall]

Heres some good info on those crosses.

Rosary Workshop: Rosary - Museum Crucifixes - (Early Latin American)

that's a great resource! Thanks!

 

[oldsalty19]

on the crucifix.......but nice finds

 

[Argentium]

Great find , that may well have been a monk or nun's cross , the skull device is twofold 1.reminding the penitent of Christ's
victory over death , 2. a reminder of the certainty of our mortality ! Argentium.

 

[thunderstrike]

On some crucifixes a skull and crossbones are shown below the corpus, referring to Golgotha (Calvary), the site at which Jesus was crucified, which the Gospels say means in Hebrew "the place of the skull."[6] Medieval tradition held that it was the burial-place of Adam and Eve, and that the cross of Christ was raised directly over Adam's skull, so many crucifixes manufactured in Catholic countries still show the skull and crossbones below the corpus