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  Joost Daalder July 22, 2011 at 6:44am

  This does look very attractive to me - much of this, at least, looks as though it has been very intensively used, but I must admit that as I learn more and more from Ayis I trust my own judgement less!! But visually I think this is great.
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  Linda Pastorino July 22, 2011 at 7:39am

  This was the last purchase on my last trip to Morocco a few years ago. I used my taxi fare to buy these, all spent out on every card and money withdrawal. It as ridiculous but these came from a dusty nomad into a store and was there when they were being offered and snapped them up. I have never seen them so old before and they were carved and not the molded or very sharp ones that i'm sued to seeing .
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  Eva Baby July 22, 2011 at 11:12am

  they look very old and very used - which (in my eyes) makes them so special!! Love them!!!! They also seem to be repaired or they were made with metal (some of them) which wore off by the years. In any case, I consider this as something very special!
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  SARAH CORBETT July 22, 2011 at 11:31am

  These early carved agate tanfouk pendants are from India, and predate the later ones which were produced up to the 1940's in Idar Oberstein in Germany . Later glass pieces are from Bohemia.

  Here is a google search within the Bead collectors forum regarding the agate of Idar Oberstein.

   

  The metal pieces are a later Saharan addition, they were not made with the metal in place.

   

  http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22idar+oberstein%22site%3Awww.bea...

  Warm wishes

  Sarah
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  Joost Daalder July 22, 2011 at 1:21pm

  Many thanks, Sarah. I did not know where the agate pieces came from, but had wondered just what the metal was doing in relation to them, and you have satisfied my curiosity, at least in part. What was the actual PURPOSE of these additions?? As it happens, they make the necklace more interesting by creating variety, but that of course was not the aim! Thanks also for the link. I am certainly learning here.
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  Joost Daalder July 22, 2011 at 1:25pm

  Sarah, could you indicate more specifically where one goes after having clicked on your link? For I'd like to see the actual shapes of the objects used in the necklace if at all possible. Thanks, Joost
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  SARAH CORBETT July 22, 2011 at 2:18pm

  Hi Joost, the pendants are known as tanfouk or talhakimt

  a search for these brings a more filtered result

  but generally it is a case of sifting through!

   

  Below are a couple of links for refined searches

  tanfouk

  talhakimt

  enjoy! it is a great learning game!!

  Warm wishes

  Sarah x

   
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  Alaa eddine SAGID July 22, 2011 at 8:25pm

  Veeeery nice.

   

  Right on Sarah, this early ones would have come from India, but i recently purchased a couple  and it seems that they were carved  locally. (recently discovered that they were used among the berbers of the anti atlas in their necklaces and not in the hair wich remains a nomad's priviliege)

   

  I was astonished to see a talhakimt exposed at a museum in LUXOR in Egypt wich was digged from a local pharao's era tomb.

  World of rings has one labelled with a medieval persian origin.

   

  Wether well traveled or a much more earlier (neolithic?) heritage, it is very interesting to see them so widely widespread across the lands.
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  SARAH CORBETT July 22, 2011 at 8:31pm

  http://www.clker.com/clipart-2829.html

   

  they always reming me of this symbol...wonder if there is a link!
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  Linda Pastorino July 22, 2011 at 10:31pm

    funny how this was my last purchased a few hours away from the plane... my girlfriend and I were both bartering and figuring out how to get the last cash to pay for things... I love it in the medina and markets!  I purchased another odd piece(  which is for sale)  from same person that was quite interesting also that was silver and had amulets of coral. Tuareg I think and it's  a great piece but I don't have a good photo of it. Also something I have not seen before.