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  Alaa eddine SAGID October 2, 2013 at 9:03pm

  Very interesting, the same bird pattern is to be found on many south moroccan earrings....i always thought this to be and old medieval islamic pattern

  The moon pendants are reminescent to some very old kabyle earrings (non enameled with only coral cabs)....possibly, that your earrings come from close to the algerian/tUnisian border, were simpler earrings of this style (sometimes very large) are worn!

  Here are older bird earrings from south morocco

  
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  Nada October 2, 2013 at 9:11pm

  Beautiful old earrings you've shown from Southern Morocco.  I see the resemblance. I've also seen similar bird motifs on Central Asian earrings if I'm not mistaken, so that gives credence to your theory about a Medieval Islamic origin.
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  Cecilia October 3, 2013 at 11:16am

  These earrings from Dagestan are part of the collections of the state museum of Ethnography i St Petersburg. Russia. Found the photo in a museum publication from 1974.
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  Nada October 3, 2013 at 11:25am

  There is a similarity Cecilia, certainly in the placing of the bird on the cusp of the earrings. Thank you for posting that picture.