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Spectacular. Another very precious item..
very very beautiful Peter . This is fantastic piece really wonderful. With all your fancy pieces it is hard to say which is more beautiful. This must be a rare item... Thanks for showing this it is really enjoyable to see..
Dea Peter,Fantastic, refined and artistic. done by a highly skilled atisan definitely. Always recognizable
and appreciated. GR. Ingrid.
An excellent, most impressive buckle. Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing, Peter.
Peter while looking to cross reference something completely different, I found this image within the Quai Branly museum pieces, and thought you might be interested to see it ... if you have not already done so. It is a belt, with a buckle very similar to yours. The inventory number is 71.1973.77.649. It is identified as being from Kutahya, Turkey but is not dated.
A jou to see that Quai Branly piece, ZambecCocktail, and there is indeed an interesting resemblance!
Dear Zambezi Cocktail; Many thanks for your message. This is a bit a different buckle. Mine is Buglarian-Ottoman. The below is from Turkey but these belts and buckles were also used in the Levant and as far down as Yemen, all of which were of course also occupied by the Ottomans. I have previously posted 3 gorgeous belt buckles, which are almost double the size of this particular unit. With kind regards. Peter
What interests me in both pieces is the flower pattern - very large in your piece, Peter, and small - yet distinctive - in the centre of the buckle which ZambecCocktail shows us. There is of course inherently nothing abnormal about an Ottoman piece in Bulgaria resembling one made in Turkey, the heart of the empire, but it is interesting to see examples of motifs like this used in different places, I feel.
A fantastic piece, Peter. It looks like it is made of the finest lace rather than silver. Bulgarian jewellery ever ceases to amaze me... I wonder about the dimensions of this buckle? Warm regards, betty.