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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 9880867, member: 6283&quot;]Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I saw this today as I collect these. They stopped being popular in the 1960s *(still make them though, but they are machine made). They were made with ebony or ebony style wood panels.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were made as early as the 1700s and the older ones of the 1700s and 1800s were made by hand and hand filed. The older ones are more valuable of course. A lot of sellers sneakily call them WWII German Chaplain crucifixes to get more money selling them with an interesting fantasy story to get big bucks for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one with the skull and crossbones was known as a Memento Mori Golgotha crucifix. The older ones have file marks/lines on the metal. Yours look to be from 1890s-1930s. Nuns, sisters, brothers, and priests would have these, but mostly nuns. Most nuns wore them around the neck with a shoestring or ribbon or wore them attached to rosaries around their waists with a chatelaine clip. Most I find for sale are from the 1920s-1950s, but a lot of sellers erroneously call the mid 20th century ones antiques.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are usually known as profession pectoral crucifixes. The bigger and older they are, the more valuable. The prices of these are all over the place. One person will sell one for $20-$30 and another will sell one for a few hundred dollars depending on the &quot;hyped up story&quot; they tell.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is harder to find the true antique hand filed ones with lines and tool marks in the metal or ones that are 6 inches or bigger. Collectors seek out the large ones attached to waist rosaries or large single hand filed ones. They were usually made in Germany, but some were made in France and Italy. Some of the large ones over 7 inches tall were coffin crucifixes or placed on a wall.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>More info for you and others who may come across this old thread:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://fscc-calledtobe.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/6-HH-June-2021.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fscc-calledtobe.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/6-HH-June-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://fscc-calledtobe.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/6-HH-June-2021.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rosaryworkshop.com/MUSEUM-CRUCIFIXES-MB-European.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rosaryworkshop.com/MUSEUM-CRUCIFIXES-MB-European.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.rosaryworkshop.com/MUSEUM-CRUCIFIXES-MB-European.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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