"It's a curious idea, isn't it?"

...Thanks for the title go to a lady in the National Museum of Scotland for her observations on the Monymusk reliquary. How is it that the bones of a saint and a lethal weapon, (this pistol, also in the NMS,) have ended up with such similar decoration? So, I suppose what I'm attempting here is something to do with where decoration belongs and what it says about the object it is decorating. Something to do with embellishment and enshrinement and some sort of human narrative. Via a teabag, amongst other things.