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  Edith D December 28, 2013 at 5:34pm

  Here is a full view...

  
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  Edith D December 28, 2013 at 5:36pm

  And here is a typical hallmark.  This bracelet is inscribed for the owner with the date 1958.  Angelini closed the school and returned to Italy in 1970.  He died in 1999.

  
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  Ethnic Embellishments December 28, 2013 at 5:59pm

  Very educational Edith, thank you!
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  Chantal December 28, 2013 at 6:14pm

  Extremely interesting Edith to see a specimen of the work of that school.The mixing of two cultures often makes for extremely interesting pieces (In my opinion). I'd love to have information about the Algerian jewellers of the 30s-50s who created these orientalist/urban bracelets  with masses of filigree and granulation. (Before that time there was Eudel 's work). But so far no luck.
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  Edith D December 29, 2013 at 4:03am

  The cross-cultural influences are something that I also find very interesting.  Furthermore, I have a strong suspicion that Angelini may have also trained many Tunisian silver smiths since there was such a close relationship between Tripoli and Djerba.  Apparently, the Scuola di Orafi had students from all ethnic, tribal and religious groups living in the region.  Angelini expanded on the regional techniques used to fabricate jewelry...he was trained in the Italian Navy as a machinist and transferred some of these techniques to gold and silver work, thus modernizing the trade.  However, based upon my examination of the above bracelet, he seems to have had very high standards of quality and individual design and workmanship.  Angelini's son and daughter were also trained in the trade, and his daughter produced some very lovely designs based upon local jewelry forms.  These influences were likely passed on to the students of the Scuola di Orafi.
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  Chantal December 29, 2013 at 11:21am

  Fascinating (his transferring his skills as a machinist in the Navy!) to the creation and design of jewels. How do you know all this Edith? Is there a book on this school (Scuela di Orafi)? Anyway thanks for all the details.
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  ait ouakli December 29, 2013 at 12:09pm

  Edith. It is nice subject and you. Added a nice info i did not know about his work in thenavy before coming to italy. Now i understand a lot about his work.
  Se can se now why thiscross is diferent in samples.the cirles inside are made with machine and the rest with hand.
  It explains to me also why the plats and dishes look completly different from the original ones.
  He has a symetrie not easy to find. Jewelers are not responsabls of lives of passengers. Navy ingenieurs yes
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  Edith D December 29, 2013 at 4:25pm

  There is some information about Angelini in Alberini's book on Libyan Jewelry.  Also, there is a website with a lot of this information.  It is at this address..

  http://www.angelcoin.it

  Although he did make jewelry, a lot of Angelini's work was sculpture and decorative objects as Ait has mentioned.  I found an old listing for Christie's with a pair of his candelabras for sale...

  
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  ait ouakli December 29, 2013 at 4:52pm

  thank you edith for the link about the angelcoin.

  now many things are making sense. i dont remeber if it was you or some other memebr who posted a jewel foto and i commented that i saw semilar work in italy ( cesenatico )

  cesenatico is just few km from the adress of the place you mentionned. it is then the raison why the same work to see in northafrican ( lybia, tunisia ) and italy. it is even in the north.

  semilar work is in sardenia and cicily
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  ait ouakli December 29, 2013 at 4:56pm

  this 2 candleholders are amazing. they are sending me now to a completly other continent and country . India