A rare visual and historical reference dedicated to cast Orthodox religious metalwork spanning more than a thousand years.

This volume explores devotional objects from Eastern Europe - including antique crosses, encolpions, folding icons, altar elements, and liturgical castings - created between the 9th and early 20th centuries. Through detailed imagery and scholarly context, the book traces how cast metal became a vessel of faith, preservation, and continuity across centuries of upheaval.

Particular attention is given to the Old Believers, whose reverence for cast copper objects safeguarded ancient iconographic models and contributed to the development of distinct regional traditions. Rather than treating metalwork as secondary to painting, this book restores cast religious objects to their rightful place within the broader history of Orthodox sacred art.

Created for collectors, historians, jewelers, and those drawn to the material presence of faith, Faith in Metal serves as both a reference work and a source of quiet contemplation.

Complimentary with the purchase of any antique cross from the collection.