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  nancy masur August 16, 2011 at 3:29am

  Beautiful necklace!
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  Karim Carlo Rotondi August 16, 2011 at 10:51am

  thank you Nancy. I've found this in Sanaa just as you see it and kept it that way.

  greetings from Milano K
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  Alaa eddine SAGID August 16, 2011 at 12:29pm

  Karim this is some utterly fantastic filgree beads, never seen anything like this. Are they gilded silver or bronze or gold ?
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  Karim Carlo Rotondi August 17, 2011 at 3:29pm

  hello Ayis

  materials gere are: coral, silver and gilded silver. As far as I know, Hadramout is the only region in Yemen where they use gilded silver. And to some effect indeed!

  ciao K
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  Alaa eddine SAGID August 18, 2011 at 3:52am

  grazzie Karim, I didn't knew about this hadaramaout  speciality, but in any way those big  gilded beads are wonderful, especially the 3 at the center, they look like they were centuries old
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  Karim Carlo Rotondi August 19, 2011 at 3:47pm

  actually I don't know... I thought perhaps 100 yrs. Never easy to tell!