This silver gilt cross is part of a set of jewellery collected in the Balkans in the early twentieth century by Edith Durham, a missionary. A range of religious and cultural beliefs have influenced the jewellery’s designs. This cross was bought in Bosnia in 1906, where it had been made by a Catholic silversmith. The silversmith claimed that it contained a piece of the 'True Cross' (on which Christ was crucified). It was opened by members of the Museum’s Conservation Department in June 2002 and found to be empty.

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