​Angel with Bells Sterling Silver Christmas Ornament #3023 Hand & Hammer 2002.  This sterling collectible is part of the Hand & Hammer Angel series of ornaments.  Early Christians inherited Jewish understandings of angels, which in turn may have been partly inherited from the Egyptians.  In the early stage, the Christian concept of an angel characterized the angel as a messenger of God.  Angels are creatures of good, spirits of love, and messengers of the savior Jesus Christ.  Later came identification of individual angelic messengers: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, and Satan/Lucifer.  Then, in the space of little more than two centuries (from the third to the fifth) the image of angels took on definite characteristics both in theology and in art

The size of this ornament is about 1-1/4" high  X  2" wide. This Sterling Silver Ornament is in Excellent like new collectible condition.

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