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$ 2,450.00
$ 2,450.00
Or charity box. Mid 19th C possibly Russian. Silver plate and modeled as a church. Gothic style silver plated reliquary or ecclesiastical alms box, modeled as a church or other architectural structure with pitched roof adorned with pierced quatrefoil band and finials at top and spread-winged eagle pattern "shingles"; the sides feature charity-themed vignettes of figures warming themselves by the fire, men thanking a woman mending clothes, a baptism scene, and a scene of one man stopping another from taking a weeping woman's basket. Images of saints and bail handles at each end. Lined with purple flocked velvet.