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Beautiful treasures!
Hey Frankie, I dont think that the ring is Mauritanian .
I spotted it in a shop in the edges of the Souk in Kech.. the owner says it was made in southern Morocco it is made from bone and has been dyed with henna.
S x
Thanks love. No matter it goes with it all pretty well and I think it`s ducky!
I find it hard to believe it`s bone though. I find it too transluscent and it`s too light in weight.
Guess what though - I`ve just thought to shine my black light torch on it and it flouresces in exactly the same way as my Moroccan amber necklace, it turns yellow. I mean properly yellow not the darker egg yolk amber colour that it actually is. So, amber? Surely not?
mmmm interesting.....I bought these in my quest to understand the fancy snowflake beads... I was walking in a part of the souk I had somehow missed in all those million visits! there was a guy with some in a jam jar in the window of his shop . I bought a few...clearly newly made he sold new components, and so I asked him where he got them from he told me a man in the far south makes them..
they are similar and cute for sure.....
i am haunted by where these carved beads fit into the picture ...meeting our friend David in a few weeks will interrogate him on the subject over a beer ! Its the way we like to do business!!
will tell more as I discover it
S x
I`m fascinated by the carved beads, too. I`ve spent hours hunting online for them in various languages but... zilch! I think the rings are of the same genre and maybe the maker would know something of the snowflake tradition.
Maybe even, some of us have even been buying plastic amber old moroccan "amber" beads for the real thing. If so, I`d love to meet the guy who had made them - what a craftsman!.
Difficult to believe you haven`t trodden every "sq. of the Kech souks though!
The new souk route was a revelation in several ways saw things whioch i need to go back to record for the magazine...thats for another day!
I don't recall ever seeing these beads for sale singly I was offered a strand in Santa Fe full graduated strand beautiful but Very expensive.
but single ones never seen to turn up..
all of them are pristine
no wear
no patina
they haunt me...need to pin their story down!!
S X
Re the ring, I think I may have it sussed.
See eBay no. 231141000417 where what are evidently dyed sheeps horn beads are described as dyed camel bone. No camel bone ever looked like that and we know dyed sheep/goat`s horn when we see it. The henna would fit too.
It is not the same material as the two little beads here which, as you`ve said I think, are phenolic resin. So no further with the snowflakes I`m afraid. I wonder where the Santa Fa seller sourced hers...
Waiting for the souk route story......
The auction is crazy!
here is a strand of them which I have for sale for £58 loads of them !!! i should put my prices up!!!! ;-)
These are nice quality ones
I have some camel bone beads too also coloured with either smoke or Henna, but very different to the sheep ones. Ebay makes me smile... I still marvel at the wonders you seem to find there Frankie!
Not the first time I`ve seen dyed sheep`s horn described as bone. Aren`t yours nice? Different from a strand I bought from you ages ago though but still obviously horn....
.....it`s a mad, mad world..... just let the buyer beware
I think the Pierre Berge prices are a bit nuts too. Some wildly optimistic, some underpriced. But I`m going by online prices, maybe actual Paris auctions are different.
Having another look at the original picture of this discussion, and all the remarks about the possibility of dyed bone:
The bead in the middle reminds me the shape of a vertebra.
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