Catherine Stuff

I've managed to buy a very nice early-19th century print from eBay showing the St Catherine's Chapel at Guildford, from Hassell's Views of England. Comparing it with the photographs on the previous page, you can see the ruins have become a bit more ruinous in the intervening nearly-two-centuries.

Catherine Stuff on eBay, May 2008

These interesting items appeared over recent days on eBay. The banner on the left is probably early-20th century, and is Belgian. The middle figure shows St Catherine as the finial of a 17th-century silver spoon. The possibly early-19th-century statue I decided was simply too queer even to consider buying, quite apart from how odd the composite image makes it look. However, I did succeed in purchasing this little Peruvian shrine depicting St Catherine:

There's a South American tradition of painting images of the saints, particularly on small plates of tin, and mounting them in little domestic shrines like this one. The drawer is for religious medals and trinkets.