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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 223506, member: 55&quot;]My opinion, for what it is worth:&nbsp; the hanging wire does show some patina, and I&#039;d guess it indicates a date in the 1960&#039;s, maybe slightly earlier.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the general crudeness of the painting bothers me; genuine icons, old or new, generally are not crude.&nbsp; They were items of veneration, generally painted by monks in Greece; carefully painted and well-cared for in use.</p><p>Not left out in the rain.......</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m tending towards the reproduction/decorative item theory.</p><p><br /></p><p>I might add that the lettering does appear to be Greek:&nbsp; ICXC, a &quot;Christogram&quot; or abbreviation for Jesus Christ, and NIKA, Greek for &quot;conquers&quot; or &quot;is victorious.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; However, the cross depicted is the Latin cross, not the Greek cross that would be expected on an Eastern Orthodox religious item.&nbsp; The A in NIKA appears in an odd, stylized, atypical form; may either point toward a reproduction, or perhaps toward a regional Cyrillic variant (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script</a> for information on the Cyrillic alphabet and the many regional variations).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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