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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9881758, member: 2844&quot;]Thank you for the info and links. Do you mean the large Golgotha ones are for nuns etc?</p><p>Because in Germany and here in the Netherlands these crosses are on rosaries, also the ones owned by lay people. My grandmother had one.</p><p>There is a small rosary with one of these crosses in this Dutch listing, closeup in photo #4:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/verzamelen/religie/m2149501022-prachtige-verzameling-oude-rozenkransen?correlationId=9316419e-b432-4be3-97f4-d325ea0df381" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/verzamelen/religie/m2149501022-prachtige-verzameling-oude-rozenkransen?correlationId=9316419e-b432-4be3-97f4-d325ea0df381" rel="nofollow">https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/verzamelen/religie/m2149501022-prachtige-verzameling-oude-rozenkransen?correlationId=9316419e-b432-4be3-97f4-d325ea0df381</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are probably more on that site, but it is a bit much browsing through 35 pages of rosary listings.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From my rosary collection, an antique traditional folk rosary from Schwäbisch Gmünd, S Germany. The cross is inlaid with locally sourced bog oak, not regular wood:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496425[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This type of rosary were for unmarried girls.</p><p>Details of the cross, not a Golgotha type, but it does have the crown of thorns on the back:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496426[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496427[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A more recent rosary posted by KSW a few years ago:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]496424[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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