Help Identifying or Reproducing Constantine Keychain
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Top 2 most difficult are the 7 Gifts and the OLP medals followed by the St Joseph medal. Color me curious. What are you thinking? I have the Hayward 7 Gifts that can be molded and copied. I do not have anything that could be directly molded for the OLP. I have a french medal for the St Joseph that is very close.
#1) Creed The Seven Gifts (center) SS442
#2) Jeweled Cross Our Lady of Perpetual Help JC-152/1MFT
#3) Jeweled Cross St Joseph JC-111-1MFT
#1) Creed The Seven Gifts (center) SS442
#2) Jeweled Cross Our Lady of Perpetual Help JC-152/1MFT
#3) Jeweled Cross St Joseph JC-111-1MFT
As much as love modeling these (a little sarcasm there), I've had a couple of opportunities to buy some of the vintage medals for a very unreasonable price. A properly made metal cast of an original in good shape is going to be virtually indistinguishable from the original, and if the medal is not available commercially, then I have no qualms doing that.
Comparing the time and cost to 3d model and produce metal replicas, I'd rather instead try molding and casting the next medal from NOS in-house. I am looking at the our Lady of Perpetual Help and the Seven gifts, just didn't want to waste energy or resources if someone else was already going to be doing them.
Awesome, this is exactly why I tagged you. I have the equipment, but I'd rather focus on one that doesn't already have some movement to get it done.
NoiAlibi
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As someone from a less privileged country and a remote region — and not a native English speaker — even coming across photos and auction listings of these pieces felt like a small miracle.
Searching for them has given me a rare sense of sentimentality and of truly feeling alive.
I hope you’ll understand how deeply meaningful this is to me.
Searching for them has given me a rare sense of sentimentality and of truly feeling alive.
I hope you’ll understand how deeply meaningful this is to me.
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I understand the feeling. The seven gifts medal about broke me. I looked at100s of auction every couple of days. In the end, it popped based on search terms, not looking at every auction for religious medals. Maybe there's a lesson there(?). The whole prop may not be the hardest thing to find but its certainly up there with other grail type searches.
On that note, I saw Adam Savage talk about Objects and the Art of Obsession at Maker Faire some years ago. I found inspiration and a "Eureka" moment that day. He finishes his talk by saying:
"And then, maybe then, I'll be able to achieve the end of this exercise. But really if were all going to be honest with ourselves, I have to admit that achieving the end of the exercise was never the point of the exercise to begin with."
Its a fun watch...highly recommend it.
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NoiAlibi
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Thank you so much for this, Mach. Your reply meant more to me than I can put into words.
What you shared about the Seven Gifts medal—I felt every bit of that. The exhaustion, the slow discouragement, the way the search begins to wear you down. It’s strange how something so small can weigh so heavily.
But what really stayed with me was that Adam Savage quote. I’m planning to watch the talk—it already speaks to something I’ve been quietly feeling for a while. That final line, “achieving the end of the exercise was never the point,” just… lingers. I think I’ve known it deep down, but seeing it phrased so clearly brought a kind of quiet clarity.
So thank you. Not only for your insight, but for the reminder that this strange, stubborn search we’re on may not be about the finding at all—but about everything it reveals along the way.
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