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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kentworld, post: 1518130, member: 35&quot;]I suppose I could’ve put these in the Finds Thread, but I wasn’t really looking for these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, a friend lost his wife to pancreatic cancer a week before Christmas.&nbsp; He asked me to help sort the wheat from the chaff of her china, crystal and what nots.&nbsp; He said, “Take what you want.”&nbsp; I really didn’t want to take anything, but he wanted to used the frame that the needlepoint was in for something else, and the rosary looked like it had been well used at one time, and seemed too personal to give to the thrift.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m a sucker for needlework.&nbsp; I think that this is not a sampler from 1869, but perhaps a pattern that was made the mid-third of the 20th c., but others may be able to enlighten me further. 16.5 inches by 19.5 inches. Also, it seems to have been attacked by moths as there are several “repairs” to it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing about the rosary or rosaries in general.&nbsp; The beads appear to be blue glass, the medallion silver coating over copper which has mostly worn off and the cross, silver coating over a gold coloured metal — maybe brass, but it is quite light.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dunno what I’m going to do with these things, but for some reason, I couldn’t leave them to the thrift...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie13" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]226845[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]226847[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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