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* Norman Cross in silver, decorated and set with elegant rhinestones finely cut, of XIXth century.
This cross is in good condition. It is punched see pictures (worn punch).
A note: the stone moves in the middle of its location, and small cabossures dents in the back, it will be clean, normal wear, see photos.
traditional jewel of the region. Indeed, the jewel in Normandy has a type and style of its own. Its great variety of shapes and the quality of its manufacture indicates an important corporation of goldsmiths jewelers under the old regime, and powerful jewelers in the nineteenth and twentieth century. in the regional capital (Rouen) and medium-sized cities (Havre, Bayeux, Alencon, Coutances, St. Lo and Falaise). This is the seventeenth and eighteenth century that we must find the origin of so-called traditional forms like the cross of Saint-Lô, the crosses of Rouen, the Holy Cross bumps and spirits. These rich ornaments, for the elite rich cities, but especially noble merchant bourgeoisie, is popularized throughout the nineteenth century.
