This Vampire Killing Kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 as part of Sotheby’s sale of 19th century furniture and decorative works of art in New York, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. The kit, a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and various serums, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder. (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)
19thC Vampire-killing Kit (Yahoo/AP)

That doesn’t look like a crucifix to me — it should have a representation of Christ “fixed” to the cross. That’s just a metal cross.

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