Featured Rosary, please help!

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Simona Buhus, Nov 7, 2024 at 3:10 PM.

  1. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    Good evening,
    This rosary has been in my jewellery box for some time, can’t remember where from. It might have been my grandmother’s.
    I know nothing about it, it looks brown beads, could be wood, could be anything else.
    There is a chain that keeps the beads together, looks like metal.
    I would like to know what is it made of and how old is it?
    I am thinking to give it to my local charity, please stop me if this is something I should keep.
    Thank you.
    Kind regards,
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  2. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    seems quite a nice one, nicer than most i come across anyway, i would keep it

    lightened the pics, as its quite hard to see

    what does the back of the cross look like ?

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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

  4. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I have quite a few rosaries that I inherited from the aunts and my mother. All kinds of materials. This one is fairly plain compared to some. As Owned said, may be bog oak in which case it might have been brought back from some shrine. I have one that had water from Lourdes inside each bead, long since evaporated.

    Impossible to tell from the photos, but is there anything on the center metal piece? Usually it's an image of a Saint or the Sacred Heart or something else. If it's plain, that makes it seem more like an actual "working" rosary and not from a shrine. Brothers and Sisters used plain ones.
     
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  5. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    It's often a Sacred Heart, either of Jesus or Mary. Speaking as a Protestant who's had a lot of rosary bits drop into her lap. I've seen a lot of plain rosaries with wooden beads too; they tend to be older. This could have been someone's daily driver.
     
  6. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    I’d keep it if it was an inheritance and I had a sentimental attachment to it but Rosaries do sell very well on eBay if you wanted to, especially the older ones :)
     
  7. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    I am still undecided what to do with it as I am not waring it, nor do I use it for prayer. It feels unethical of me selling it.
    Does anyone here wants it as a gift? In the UK, would be easier to post.
    I have scratched some paper with it, there are some brown marks like pencil, @Ownedbybear I wonder if this is a sign that may be bog oak.
    Thank you.
    Kind regards,
    Simona
     
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  8. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    i'd love it simona, since lockdown i never left the door without mine, i've got a carved bone stanhope one that i love

    i'm uk and will pay any postage fees of course

    and promise not to flog it on of course;););););):)
     
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  9. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I hate to say this but a few times I have come across a rosary with pretty beads and made them into necklaces. Once I took off the religious bits they made nice necklaces. In fact, they sold fairly quickly. None of them were special, like I said, just pretty beads.
     
  10. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I've been known to repair some, but the ones that are beyond repairing I've redone into other religious jewelry.
     
  11. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    Please send me your address, I will send it to you on Monday.
    Xx
     
  12. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    If you’re getting brown marks, then bog oak.

    and how very kind of you.
     
  13. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    Yes, looks like brown marks. Thank you for educating me, still learning ❤️Xx
     
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