No Creating Necessary
November 17, 2007 by Joshua Johnson
Filed under Home & Living
Sometimes, when you find something, it’s fine just the way it came. This 800 year old cricifix was just such a thing!
This weekend’s post comes from a news story in www.reuters.com entitled: “Medieval crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skip“. (Pictures from the same place.)
To quote the article:
VIENNA (Reuters) – An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix. . .has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria. . .
The crucifix, made of copper and enamel, was crafted in Limoges, France, and was part of a Polish art collection brought to Austria during Nazi rule, Josef Holzberger, police spokesman in Salzburg, said on Thursday.
It was found in 2004 in the lakeside winter resort of Zell am See by a woman combing through a skip filled with the discarded possessions of a neighbor who had just died.
“The lady . . .rummaging for plates when she found the crucifix,” said Holzberger. “. . .the deceased’s family. . .said she could have it.”
Last month the woman showed the crucifix to a friend who realized it might be something special and took it to a museum.
In the run-up to World War Two, the owners of the crucifix had hid it and other treasures by walling them inside the basement of a house in Warsaw.
They were discovered by the Nazis in 1941, brought to the Polish National Museum and later transferred to a castle in the Austrian village of Bruck an der Grossglocknerstrasse, near Zell am See, police said.
“We lost track of what happened then — we don’t know how the crucifix ended up in Zell am See,” Holzberger said.
The crucifix might be worth up to 400,000 euros ($539,000) at auction.
Yet another piece of “junk” that seems to have been worth the time to find. People just don’t understand that just because something is in the trash can, or an estate sale, doesn’t mean that it is worthless.
