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Title: Help Identifying Book
Post by: oldsoul921 on May 28, 2013, 09:50:54 PM
Hello all  :)
I've come across this book and I can't seem to find information on it. I can only go by this image because the book is not in my possession yet.

(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z298/sweetp77777/Capture.png) (http://s188.photobucket.com/user/sweetp77777/media/Capture.png.html)

- appears to be some type of bible
- could be a Dagmar cross


any ideas?!  ???
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: bigwull on May 29, 2013, 03:55:40 AM
Looks like East European,..but until we see inside ,we can only guess...
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: Ipcress on May 29, 2013, 05:33:09 AM
Could be an edition of this - note the four medallions within the gilt

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10387346 (http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10387346)

Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: ghopper1924 on May 29, 2013, 05:33:22 AM
It looks like the kind of bibles that were being produced as special editions in the 1870s and 1880s.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: Ipcress on May 29, 2013, 05:40:29 AM
Quote from: ghopper1924 on May 29, 2013, 05:33:22 AM
It looks like the kind of bibles that were being produced as special editions in the 1870s and 1880s.

This should be a Haydock bible, late 19th.

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/search?q=bible+haydock&org=yes&hasimage=true&dtype=gallery&type=complete&rows=20 (http://www.liveauctioneers.com/search?q=bible+haydock&org=yes&hasimage=true&dtype=gallery&type=complete&rows=20)
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: ghopper1924 on May 29, 2013, 05:43:21 AM
Yep!
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: oldsoul921 on May 29, 2013, 07:25:40 AM
Quote from: Ipcress on May 29, 2013, 05:33:09 AM
Could be an edition of this - note the four medallions within the gilt

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10387346 (http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10387346)



Oh wow thank you that seems to be it, only it appears older. That could just be damage which wouldn't be a plus though.
the clasps are spot on and I'm no historian but I don't know what this symbol is doing on a Christian bible.

(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z298/sweetp77777/10387346_9_x.jpg) (http://s188.photobucket.com/user/sweetp77777/media/10387346_9_x.jpg.html)


Wouldnt that be "The All Seeing Eye of Horas"? Seen on the dollar bill and on many free mason items? I only wonder because I don't understand the connection and my grandfather belongs to a free mason lodge.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: Ipcress on May 29, 2013, 11:46:50 AM
The Eye Of Providence - for God's own lodge  ;)

Any chance of an image of the title page ?
Title: Re: Help Identifying Book
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on May 29, 2013, 06:10:14 PM
Look between the old and new testaments for family genealogy pages.