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It has the yemen touch but the big stone is unusual
Super looking stone. I bet amber, but I think it looks more berber to me.
Then,if was originaly used and not added later, the yemen or berber possibilities are thinn
I can say carefuly ottoman influence and /or balticum/balkan
Welcome Tanja, I'm glad to see that you joined this forum.
I agree with Patty and Ait - it looks like amber, but is difficult to place.
Baltic amber jewellery, I believe, usually looks different. Balkans- perhaps. My first though was Yemen, too, but I agree that the large stone would be unusual. Could it perhaps be the work of a Yemeni silver smith who migrated to Israel? Does the piece have a hallmark?
It was some orders from/for westerns starting in beggining of the 20 th century
Personaly, i see ottoman,berber,yemen,balkan and baltic influences
It will not wonder me if we findout thats made or bought in tunisia too,even djerba
I bought it as "Berber from Sahel - bracelet" some years ago in Ebay :-). I am not sure if it is amber or glass - it could be amber as a pin scratches, the colors are a bit different and with some fantasy i see darker embeddings in (two of the four) beads - but it is rather difficult to say as there is the silver bottom. I didn't want to do the water-test as I don't want to damage this old piece :-)
Hallmark - not sure. With the magnifier there is a small mark beside the closure which could be something like a 4 in the middle of two "I" - but it isn't very clearly, it could also be a result of scatches (it has some inside)