ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation grey brown I find abacus' rewardingly useful

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ON HOLD Incredible 19th C. Monastery Work Reliquary with Painted Saint and Elaborate Ornamentation grey brown I find abacus' rewardingly usefulThis amazing thing, what a piece of work! I'm not at all an expert on reliquaries, but certainly that is what this is, holding small relics of S. Asteria and S. Modesti, both martyrs as indicated by the M's following their names. (The relics themselves appear most likely to be the small bits of cloth under the handwritten labels bearing their names, though it's a but hard to tell given all that is packed in and woven together here! At the center is a