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Thank you for featuring this hairpin.
Gr. Ingrid.
Love these, Ingrid!
this reminds me too of a face! it might be coincidence of the design, I do not know. Very very interesting! Never seen such before! Also the decorations on the top are really something Special!
yes looking at it, it definitely is a very weird piece of work. You know it is also quite an observation to see how people of the interior who do or did not see magazines etc. look at a photo, they turn it all kinds of way to see an image and finally get it. Could also be a lions face with the beads on top as a mane?????
Hi Ingrid, I have a new idea. Could this be a lion's head? (wasn't the emperor named the Lion of Juda or something?). I just had the idea because I had seen somewhere an earspoon with a similar face, and it said, it was an Ethiopian pendant with a lion's head (also there, it was not easy to recognize the Lion, but it could be.... ). just an idea. I will try to refind the photo.....
Thats right Eva, that was his call name, the Lion of Judah. He had also lions as mascottes with his Bodyguards.
yes Eva, it could be a attempt to form a lions head. Tomorrow I will show you a Eth. ring with the lion,s head.
ok, will be looking Forward to it. For the earspoon it said, it is a lions head, and I found it not very "lionlike",so I thought, if that was meant to be a lions head, your pin could also be one.... (with a lot of Imagination and considering the artists liberty). Perhaps it is not - perhaps it is.........cannot tell. Could also be, that it has nothing to do with a face at all.....but I like to search and sometimes one finds out. This riddle is not yet solved........just trying.