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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 302971, member: 2844&quot;]The text on the 1923 medallion is in Portuguese.</p><p>The rosary itself could be 20s or 30s, very pretty with those pearls. The pearls are imitation, but are convincing enough for me to look twice.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> The damaged one shows the plastic core though.</p><p>The medallions on the rosary are much more recent. One of them is of st. Anthony of Padua, a very popular saint, boss of the lost property department.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Here is more on that tradition:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/please-help-this-non-catholic.18921/page-3#post-257845" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/please-help-this-non-catholic.18921/page-3#post-257845">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/please-help-this-non-catholic.18921/page-3#post-257845</a></p><p>The pouch looks homemade, maybe 1960s-70s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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