Lot 068 - Vintage Wood Crucifix With Polychrome Resin Corpus, I.N.R.I. Tablet, And Radiant Halo

Lot 068 - Vintage Wood Crucifix With Polychrome Resin Corpus, I.N.R.I. Tablet, And Radiant HaloVintage wall mount crucifix with a polychrome resin corpus of Christ mounted on a black painted wood cross with gold pinstripe accents. The corpus is hand painted with flesh tones, red stigmata details, and a white loincloth. A radiant halo with red and gold tinting is affixed behind the head, and a white I. N. R. I. scroll with red lettering is mounted above. The cross shows paint loss and chipping along the lower shaft, exposing bare wood, with

Dimensions: 6" L x 6" W x 12

Note wear and losses to velvet

Vintage alligator skin purse featuring a small mounted alligator head on the front panel

Pair of antique Swedish color medical bookplates printed by Centraltryckeriet

and dated 1923

Arm length (from pit) 20-1/2"

The ambrotype exhibits extensive crackling to the original black varnish (japanning) applied behind the collodion image — a typical deterioration pattern for the process and difficult to restore without risk to the photograph

Painted in dark blue

Likely produced for mid-20th-century public safety or industrial safety awareness campaigns

Here is a great antique meerschaum pipe featuring a highly detailed carving of a man's face and head

The second portrays a frowning Native American man titled “Great Star

Pre-Auction Notes: losses and wear in paint