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Lot 240:
Description
A collection of religious devotional items and ephemera comprising a wooden crucifix with a bronze corpus and metal titulus, and a Franklin Mint Heirloom Recommendation porcelain oval plate titled Mary Queen of Angels featuring the Virgin Mary and cherubim. The plate reverse is hand-numbered Plate No. 9a 8008 and bears a dove logo and a 1992 CMG LTD copyright. Also included is a wooden wall plaque carved as an open book displaying a forest scene and the poem My Mother, two wooden icons depicting an Archangel and the Virgin Mary with Child, and a framed print titled The End of the Day. The ephemera consists of a leather-bound Book of Common Prayer with a textured brown crocodile grain, a Sabbath-School Reciter pamphlet, and a Family Rosary Crusade program from Empire Stadium, Wembley. A Vatican City collection folder titled Città del Vaticano P.P. Giovanni Paolo II contains various postage stamps depicting Pope Paul VI and a Silver medal featuring the profile of Pope John Paul II inscribed JOANNES PAULUS II PONT. MAX. The lot is completed by a boxed set of 60 colour slides titled SOUVENIR all VATICAN.
Height: 26.5 cm.
Condition report:
The porcelain plate is housed in its original custom-moulded polystyrene packaging (photo 2). The Book of Common Prayer shows significant wear and cracking to the leather spine and edges (photo 4). Paper ephemera, including the Wembley program and pamphlets, exhibit age-related yellowing and edge wear (photo 4). The wooden icons feature distressed edges (photo 1). The crucifix and Vatican collection items appear in good vintage condition.
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