Antique Hand Cut Canivet Holy Card Saint PhillipEarly 19th century devotional painting of Saint Phillip. These delicately pierced cards are known as a canivets, so called for the name of the small knife used to cut the intricate patterns. Cloistered nuns and monks made these to support themselves or charities. These beautiful pieces were the precursor to the machine made lace paper seen in so many later devotional cards, which are also called canivets. The perforations on this one are very fine,

standard sized votive candles (“tea lights”)

Approximate measurements taken with the garment lying flat:

made from the same mold as one of mine

Refer to photos for size and condition: Standard cabinet card size

hairline crack on the side of the horizontal part of the cross

Still in fine enough shape to wear and best of all

Very unusual antique bath crystal bottle made of frosted glass in a striking art nouveau pattern

Dated 1870s

and Calcutta

enamel covered spelter on a marble base

I have two of these fabulous Victorian Conta & Boehme boxes in my collection and they are some of my favorites of the many hand-shaped objects I own

New York in the bottom lefthand corner