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Posted by Alaa eddine SAGID on August 20, 2012 at 11:20pm
These have a 14 cm diameter , this is all i know of. Belt buckles? Head ornaments ? Ottoman? Caucasus?... Too many questions Tha,k you for any insight
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  • Ethnic Embellishments August 21, 2012 at 2:54am

    I would say these are the tops to hats, Ottoman or Caucasian.  

  • Jose M. Pery August 29, 2012 at 8:20pm
    Hi, Ayis. Here you are another suggestion. They may be head-discs for sewing on to the feezes of Druze boys or head-discs for Kurdish women. There are some examples of these at pages 80, 81, 85 and 86 of Johannes Kalter's The Arts and Crafts of Syria (Thames and Hudson, 1992). Some of them look quite similar to your pieces. 
  • Jean-Marie Criel March 3, 2016 at 4:48pm

    Hello Alaa eddine,

    I'm convinced that these are head discs ('tepelik', if they turn out to be Ottoman).  I don't think they are Anatolian: I never saw these designs, and the strongly serrated edge is unknown to me also.

    It's not much for information... but a puzzle consists in many small pieces, and this could be one of them, isn't it?  Best greetings, JM.

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