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MUSEUM of ANTIQUE ROSARIES
let them speak to your heart

RETHINKING THE ROSARY

ANTIQUE ROSARY: 18c faceted coral filigree - Bavaria - click for more information

18th CENTURY FILIGREE - BAVARIA
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We learn so much when we see the way prayer counters (rosaries and chaplets) have been made and used over the centuries. One of the first things you may notice - is how our contemporaries have commercialized and stylized the rosary into a standard form in the last few centuries.
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Let these old rosaries speak to your heart in their simplicity and elegance. Then make your own rosary from treasured beads and metals of your own keeping. Some rosaries without centers, some using a Pater bead for converging to the pendant. Some with larger centers and smaller crucifixes than the eye usually balances. Remember, the heart prays, the beads count.

for more information see
BY CENTURY (17th, 18th, 19th, 20th) BY DESCRIPTION
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
ARTICLES ON ANTIQUE ROSARIES
and read our sharings
MINIATURE ICONS - MORE LINKS

~ IMAGES by CENTURY ~

17 / 18 CENTURY FILIGREE / WOOD - BAVARIA

LATE 17th

18th CENTURY FILIGREE - BAVARIA

18th c

19th CENTURY FILIGREE - BAVARIA

ANTIQUE ROSARY: 19c faceted red glass filigree - Bavaria

19th c

20th CENTURY FILIGREE - SPAIN?

20th c

~ IMAGES by DESCRIPTION ~

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FILIGREE AND WOOD - 17c

FILIGREE NECKLACE ROSARY - 17 - 18c

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BAVARIAN FACETED CORAL FILIGREE - 18c

'1700 - ROME' - JUBILEE ROSARY - 18c

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EUCHARISTIC MEDALLION ROSARY - 19c

OLD/WORN HAND CARVED WOODEN BEADS - 19c

BAVARIAN RED GLASS FILIGREE - 19c

SILVER 'TENNERS FOR MEN - 19c

SOUVENIR OF THE MISSION - LOURDES - 19c

MINIATURE CARVED IVORY ROSARY - 19c

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RUDRAKSHA SEEDS & BLACK CROSS - 20c

IRISH HORN ROSARIES - 20c

FR JOE's SILVER FILIGREE - 20c

CREAM ROSEBUD WEDDING ROSARY - 20c

PEBBLE ROSARY - MEDJUGORJE - 20c

IRISH PENAL - AN PAIDRIN BEAG- 20c

EARLY 1900s - CHAPLET WITH MEDALS - 20c

GLOW-IN-THE-DARK ROSARIES - 20c

~ PRIVATE COLLECTIONS ~

THE GERMAN ROSENKRANZ
Visit this collection for a great variety of antique prayer beads

THE WALTER DANIELS FAMILY COLLECTION
A wonderful look into musuem pieces now privately owned

WINDOW SHOPPING IN BAVARIA
Do you like to windowshop? These religious aritifacts are tempting!

~ ARTICLES ON ROSARIES ~

VENTURING THROUGH 4000 ROSARIES
Far to the Northwest of our country, our journey of discovery began ...

FROM A COLLECTOR IN GERMANY
"It is easier to become a rosary from the 17th century than to find ...

Alexander Roman on Prayer Beads in
EASTERN & WESTERN CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONAL LIFE

ENCOUNTERING THE FILIGREE
"The first one I ever saw was in Rothenberg - I was captured by its beauty ...

~ MINIATURE ICONS ~

AND SHARINGS!
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MINIATURE ANTIQUE ICON:1.5 x 2 in
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AND MORE SHARINGS
... of each human prayer ...
The museum of old rosaries is breathtaking. Thinking of the years and years that those rosaries have been in the hands of pray-ers sure does make one feel connected. The history of the rosary through the centuries is fascinating. One thing I especially like is the variety in rosaries down the years. Somehow, the antiquity and the variety have significance to me... unity down the years coupled with the uniquenss of each human prayer... brought together as one with God. << sigh>> Doesn't that just bring chills? Johnna M (FL)

... A sharing ...
I was reviewing your web page last night and am interested in many of your rosaries. Very recently, I started a collection of rosaries using them (of course) for prayer - but also as a means of working and chatting with friends and family. I have found this to be a lovely and gentle medium of communication with those who are unbelievers or just lukewarm in their faith. Tracy C (VA)

...newspaper beads ...
This weekend I had a little old lady in her 80's. She made rosaries in Germany during WW ll when there was precious little to make rosaries with - so, she made her rosaries out of little balls of rolled up newspaper with a little spittle, flour and water. When the newspaper balls were dry/hard, she sometimes painted them with "what ever I had" but frequently she had nothing to paint them with at all.
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She said she used threads from burlap bags or flour sacks to thread her rosaries. She carved her own crucifixes from bone or made them from sticks, wood etc. Her grand-daughter who came to visit her said they all had several of these little newspaper ball rosaries, and cherished them so.
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THIS was a succinct reminder to me that it is praying the rosary, living the rosary that is important ... shared by Nurse Jaye

dedicated to
PHILIP LEON CARTER
And all who love the Lord, love working with wood and are interested in learning how things were done over the centuries. How the rosary grew from a simple pebble to a string of wooden beads - to gemstones - yet know - it is the prayer of the heart that matters and not the substance of the bead.
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This is a living museum and is open to your contributions in image form so that others may enjoy the many variations in rosaries and chaplets over the centuries.

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