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A friend sent me this announcement from a local St Vincent dePaul:
“SVdP recently received a large donation of framed religious icons dating from the late 1960’s. Most are in custom made, hand carved wooden frames. These special treasures will be on exhibit and available for purchase for 1 week only. You won’t want to miss these remarkable examples of iconography and craftsmanship.”
I went by today and it was quite an interesting collection. There were a variety of icons nearly all of which are prints of not very nice quality. They mostly share the same frames which look like a mass produced “carved” wood that tries to look hand made. Script on the icons was in Greek, Russian/Cyrillic, and Arabic. Most of the icons are familiar. In the same style frames there were also a handful of decidedly Latin images. That and the Arabic made me think these might have come from a Maronite community. Later I spoke with the clerk. He said StVdP had received a large packing and these came from that. He said about half of the group had already sold. He said the crate said “Lebanon” on it.
He pointed out that the numbers 9 12 1971 are on a number of them.
I’m curious what anyone might have to say about the E M A H S with the star, and what is written in Arabic, in one case on the back of an icon, in another on the front of the icon.
On the sales counter was another grouping of icons mounted on what looked like olive wood. There are also three metal bowls with handles which are “dirty” in the bowl and I am guessing are incensers. There was a candle stick with bits of melted wax along the side of the stick.
“SVdP recently received a large donation of framed religious icons dating from the late 1960’s. Most are in custom made, hand carved wooden frames. These special treasures will be on exhibit and available for purchase for 1 week only. You won’t want to miss these remarkable examples of iconography and craftsmanship.”
I went by today and it was quite an interesting collection. There were a variety of icons nearly all of which are prints of not very nice quality. They mostly share the same frames which look like a mass produced “carved” wood that tries to look hand made. Script on the icons was in Greek, Russian/Cyrillic, and Arabic. Most of the icons are familiar. In the same style frames there were also a handful of decidedly Latin images. That and the Arabic made me think these might have come from a Maronite community. Later I spoke with the clerk. He said StVdP had received a large packing and these came from that. He said about half of the group had already sold. He said the crate said “Lebanon” on it.
He pointed out that the numbers 9 12 1971 are on a number of them.
I’m curious what anyone might have to say about the E M A H S with the star, and what is written in Arabic, in one case on the back of an icon, in another on the front of the icon.
On the sales counter was another grouping of icons mounted on what looked like olive wood. There are also three metal bowls with handles which are “dirty” in the bowl and I am guessing are incensers. There was a candle stick with bits of melted wax along the side of the stick.
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