ANTIQUE STERLING SILVER 84 \"KOKOSHNIK\" RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CROSS PENDANT \"IC XC\"
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ANTIQUE STERLING SILVER 84 \"KOKOSHNIK\" RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CROSS PENDANT \"IC XC\" :
$39.00
Antique Eastern Orthodox or Eastern/Greek Catholic cross pendant. Handmade from sterling silver, \"84\" hallmark (cast and struck by hand of a silversmith). The original loop was likely lost, and a hole was made to allow wearing the cross as a necklace or attaching it to a woman\'s dress. Overall good antique artifact condition, mildly scratched, bent and worn out likely due to devotional wearing. Could have been worn as a \"bodily\" (worn below all garments and underwear), Baptism pectoral cross. Origin likely late 19th century Imperial Russia.
The obverse of the cross pendant bears an image of a handcarved, Latin-style Cross, inscriptions with Cyrillic letters, and a symbolic image of an animal appearing as an owl or similar kind of bird in the bottom part of the cross.
The left and right side ends of the horizontal crossbars are ending with the two abbreviations forming the Sacred Name of Jesus Christ, as the \"IC XC\" Greek Christogram.
The reverse of the cross pendant bears the \"84\" hallmark of sterling silver. This was the Imperial Russian standard for silver assay based on the ancient \"zolotnik\" unit. Next to the \"84\" hallmark, there is the \"Kokoshnik\" official assay mark of the Imperial Russia used on sterling silver artwork since the late 19th century. The mark appears as a tiny profile of a woman\'s head with a Russian head dress named \"kokoshnik\".
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ANTIQUE STERLING SILVER 84 \"KOKOSHNIK\" RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CROSS PENDANT \"IC XC\" :
$39.00