Pouch/ small paper enveloppe relics
Before a relic goes into a theca or another holder it needs to get to the convent or to whoever made the relic , meaning the placement into it's holder and afterwards sealing with the episcopal seal and wax, so the items were packaged into small Paper pouches, these pouches were then sealed with a wax stamp from the bishop or the convent. In the case of the convent seal it's mostly because the convent owned a big relic of the Saint, and then it was distributed to other convents in small sealed packages. Many convents had a small stock of these to be used in Future commisions. Sometimes these Paper enveloppes were also given away or sold to People without it being placed in a new container. We have bought up many relic collections throughout the years and many had these parcels. None of these had any documentation and most never had this, we suspect because it was primarily for use for convents and they Knew where it Came from.
Fake relics post 1
a long time ago a webpage existed which gave information on fake relics, we had this in our saved pages, but then it dissappaered, we found back the information and will post it here, this gives you insightfull information
Charles Albert Lecomte was bishop of Amiens (France) in the 1930s. As with the Ferrante documents, the Lecomte documents have also been used to accompany fake relics. Shown to the left is a typical fake relic and fake document that was produced by scam artists. The document is dated 1931. However, the theca described in the document was produced by the company Fonderia Zafo in Italy. The company was founded in the late 1970s and did not start to produce these thecas until several years later. This writer contacted the company in Italy and verified that the theca was, indeed, produced by them. Some of these fakes came with documents dated after the year 1934, the year in which Bishop Lecomte passed away.
Numerous fake relics such as these surfaced suddenly in the year 2006, all of them from one dealer based in the United States. When confronted with this evidence the dealer did refund money to those who requested it if the "relics" were returned. He then proceeded to sell the same relics again but without the incriminating documents.
