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  ingrid Langerak June 19, 2015 at 6:27pm

  These photos I places special for Betty. Gr. Ingrid
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  Betty June 19, 2015 at 6:35pm

  Thank you so much, Ingrid! These are absolutely gorgeous museum pieces.

  I saw the larger one on etsy, of course, but the small one is just as exquisite and for anyone who would like to wear it also more wearable... 
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  Johanne June 19, 2015 at 8:20pm

   I love these ornaments, Ingrid!
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  Peter Hoesli June 19, 2015 at 8:27pm

  Dear Ingrid; These wedding crescents are absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations. Peter
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  ingrid Langerak June 19, 2015 at 9:56pm

  Thank you Johanna and Peter for your appreciation. They do deserve it.  Gr. Ingrid
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  Lynn Ardent June 20, 2015 at 11:46pm

  Exceptionally beautiful and wonderful necklaces.  Do you have any idea how old these are, Ingrid?
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  ingrid Langerak June 21, 2015 at 12:12am

  Hi Lynn, I place them about 1930 or older.  This in 1937 because of the Italian occupation silver had to be handed in and so Thalers went underground. After the occupation gold jewelry started to come into fashion as wedding gifts, especially in towns,  silver items became smaller in fashion in the countryside.  These cresents in the 1965s and onwards were mostly made in nickel with a silver bath for the tourist market. Sometimes I did have repairs to be done to my pieces in the traditional way by a befriended jeweler in Addis Ababa, who sometimes had to search for an jeweler who controlled the skill needed.  Gr. Ingrid
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  Betty June 21, 2015 at 11:01am

  Apart from for museum displays, silver crescents are really hard to find. I personally cannot remember having ever seen one for sale (and of course, I have been looking for one far and wide :-))...). Occasionally one finds a nickel one, but they are usually not such high standard workmanship. I keep coming back to this picture ...
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  ingrid Langerak June 21, 2015 at 11:25am

  Good morning Betty.  I think most of them have found their re-use back to the jeweler and to foreign visitors.  In the Ethiopian circles  there were few collectors.
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  Thelma June 21, 2015 at 3:08pm

  Beautiful, Ingrid. The work shows great expertise. I have hardly ever seen crescents of this standard on sale.