Beautiful Templar 2.5 x 3.5 woodbox with a Jerusalem stamp

Date is unknown put it’s a beautiful crafted wooden box with the Templar crusaders cross and sign on the top of the box.

This noble cross has several names: Jerusalem Cross, Crusader's Cross and Five-fold Cross. Its the symbol of the four Gospels or the four directions in which the word of Christ spread from Jerusalem. This symbol is composed of five crosses with branches of equal length, a central one and four smaller ones placed in each of the quadrants of the first one.

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a military order  of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Weatern Christianity They were founded c. 1119, headquartered on the Templar mount in Jerusalem and existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle ages.

The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to protect European travelers visiting sites in the Holy Land while also carrying out military operations. A wealthy, powerful and mysterious order that has fascinated historians and the public for centuries, tales of the Knights Templar, their financial and banking acumen, their military prowess and their work on behalf of Christianity during the Crusades still circulate throughout modern culture.