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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MaJa, post: 1962667, member: 14649&quot;]The two items are (religious) souvenirs from Lourdes and have no military connection. Lourdes is one of the most important pilgrimage places of the catholic church. Maybe your grandfather visited Lourdes when he was in France. Maybe he was wounded in the war or accompanied a wounded comrade there.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first can be worn as a pendant, the material could have been silver plated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ring is &quot;gilded&quot;. In the 19th century there were different (and very successful) companies in France that developed different gold-like matrials/gilding/gold doublé techniques. Fix ist the oldest. It was founded by François-Auguste Savard in 1829. At the world exhibition in Paris in 1855 it won a gold medal for its production techniques. The high of the company was in the years before the war of 1870 and then later again in the period from 1880-1914. As far as I know the company still exists under a different name, but does not make jewellery anymore and instead specialises in electrolytic coatings in various fields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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