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Do the assistants dress up?
Hang onto your hats.
Firstly, let's split the eras. The original Templars ended, because their job was done.
True in miniscule detail, but not in terms of drive and dynamic. That's why I put the word "original" in.
The original vocation, focused on the Temple, changed soon after Jerusalem fell, to become a form of armed escort for pilgrims, and as you say, finance. It's the pre-change set, the 12 Belgians, I'm focused on.
True in miniscule detail, but not in terms of drive and dynamic. That's why I put the word "original" in.
The original vocation, focused on the Temple, changed soon after Jerusalem fell, to become a form of armed escort for pilgrims, and as you say, finance. It's the pre-change set, the 12 Belgians , I'm focused on.
I admit I’m watching it and there is an element of spoilt rich kid about White. A lot of things he talks about purely in terms of their financial worth and some of the items he literally throws around and doesn’t seem to be bothered if he damages them. And he does seem to have a fair bit of Nazi material, in fairness he has a large collection and it could just be editing to highlight that small section.Warning : History Channel show.
But Hamilton White does have a fedora hat and something Indiana Jones could only have dreamed of... a £100m treasure trove dating back to the 1200s.
The antiquities hunter has spent 10 years painstakingly piecing together more than 100 pieces from a collection believed to have belonged to the Knights Templar.
It includes a libation cup, a sword which bears three Templar crosses, a helmet and an Obsidian chalice.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/real-life-indiana-jones-reveals-21963379
I was watching an episode of the wacky "search the hole" series Curse of Oak Island, and there was an episode of them finding a weird cross that looked semi-eerily like one carved by Knights Templar prisoners in a particular prison in Domme France.
I'm not questioning that the cross was seeded into the fig to make TV excitement, but instead I'm curious about:
- Is this a unique cross design to the Templars in terms of historic cross design that we have other examples of?
- Or is it just an example of two freehanded works bearing a resemblance to each other?
Video showing both:
And a screen grab:
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To me, it looks like it was cast from lead or pewter, using sand or clay as the mould.Regarding the right hand side picture, the cross shape suggests it is a poor work of craftmanship. The geometry of the cross is very irregular, one arm of the cross being longer than the other, and the vertical and horizontal segments being hardly perpendicular. In my opinion (I might be wrong), it was a probably a cheap attempt to create a pendant. The amateur jeweller made the head of the pendant wide enough to pierce a hole with the square edge/tool he had access to, so that a chain could pass through the cross. I doubt any symbolism is to be found here. It's just an easy made cross. It was lost in the area, and perhaps not searched for because of its low value.