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1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

Does anyone know how this type of real or fake cross would be made?

Just a wild guess...a pew(t)er cross made for the Knights Templars by Sir Francis Bacon...or a lead cross made from metal mined in France. You may want to take it to a blacksmith to find out how it was made. I'm guessing that carbon dating may show that it was from the 1600s, +/- 400 years. Yes, my Tuesday evening revolves around The Curse of Oak Island.?

Cool looking cross!

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Do you think I could link it to that show ... what's the name again?  haha

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8 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I have no idea of the patterns on the cross and why it is not more corroded.

Just a WAG -- could it be incomplete alloy of silver and copper?  (But you said it was weakly attracted to a magnet....)  Very surprising it doesn't show more corrsion.

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I took the liberty of downloading your photo of the cross, and found them for sale on Etsy at one time, advertised as "Ethiopian Christian cross". They are no longer available but here we are. ?

First time reverse image search has ever nailed it for me... ?

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9 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

I took the liberty of downloading your photo of the cross, and found them for sale on Etsy at one time, advertised as "Ethiopian Christian cross". They are no longer available but here we are. ?

First time reverse image search has ever nailed it for me... ?

Nice find, F350! Wanted to add that it also called it a silver Christian cross. Not sure about the silver content, but maybe they meant the color of it?

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7 minutes ago, Againstmywill said:

Not sure about the silver content

Here's something about content I found, your post had me intrigued, perhaps they used rhodium or something to "jazz it up":

Paramagnetic materials - have small, positive susceptibility to magnetic fields (having a slight attraction to magnets). Although a magnetic field slightly attracts these materials, the article does not retain the magnetic properties when the external magnetic field gets removed. Paramagnetic properties are a result of the presence of some unpaired electrons and from the realignment of the electron paths caused by the external magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials include palladium, platinum, rhodium, rhenium, ruthenium, magnesium, molybdenum, lithium, and tantalum.

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Thank you guys.  It's hard to find research time with a 3 year old and a 4 month old!  I had a feeling this was 'different' than any other cross I've found. 

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