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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2182923, member: 111&quot;]Still fuzzy to my old eyes (not helped by the scratched glass), but looks to me more like a piece of wood than bone.&nbsp; Would think that if a religious relic, would have some reference to its supposed source, whether by an engraving, an image or symbol, or just the inclusion of a slip of paper under the glass.&nbsp; As already suggested, pieces of the &#039;true cross&#039; were popular, if totally unlikely, souvenirs, but similar charms/pendants were also produced with other bits, perhaps a piece of a sunken ship, or a ruin, or something personal to the owner - even bits of the Transatlantic cable were used, with numerous souvenirs produced from the late 1850s into the &#039;60s, similar to the 1866 spinner fob charm below:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253576[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/1219278-PSR0313503/Victorian-Transatlantic-Cable-Pocket-Watch-Fob" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/1219278-PSR0313503/Victorian-Transatlantic-Cable-Pocket-Watch-Fob" rel="nofollow">https://www.rubylane.com/item/1219278-PSR0313503/Victorian-Transatlantic-Cable-Pocket-Watch-Fob</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coincidentally, while doing some research yesterday, ran across this goldstone brooch with a somewhat similar setting:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.etsystatic.com/13062452/r/il/c78faf/1504227448/il_fullxfull.1504227448_jyu9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/614412067/victorian-c1880-silver-and-goldstone?ref=cart" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/614412067/victorian-c1880-silver-and-goldstone?ref=cart" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/614412067/victorian-c1880-silver-and-goldstone?ref=cart</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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