Endangered cultural treasures from Maramures County

The paper reveals a unique universe under the tutelage of the wooden objects. Maramures County is an archaic area of great cultural prestige in which anonymous and contemporary folk craftsmen created and still creates, in their workshops, authentic, valuable objects, some of them masterpieces. The seal engravers, objects under the guardianship of the sacred, can be admired in the workshops of the folk craftsmen or in the museum collections from Maramures County. The seal engravers can embody various forms: anthropomorphic, cross-tree, stamp, pillar, obelisk, column, pyramid, hourglass, church, troy, etc. The seal engravers, wooden objects from Maramures County, represent cultural values of unique beauty. The seal engravers, transmitted for centuries, from the ancestors, are both archaic and sacred objects of worship.