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Antique Carved Wafer Stamps
Ref: 5842
Small carved and distinctly early looking folk art pieces, these are carved on the underside too with script and were used to ‘stamp’ wafers especially at Easter time in the Romanian Orthodox Church. Probably people owned one and kept in their house. They come from remote areas often such as Maramures. One day, like the Irish penal crosses, which recently featured in one of our Insta posts, these will be so scarce that one piece will fetch several hundred at auction to a collector.
Maramures 19th & early 20th cent.
H: 16cm (6.3in)
W: 4cm (1.6in)
D: 3cm (1.2in)
£220
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