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Posted by Leonor Arnó on November 20, 2012 at 1:19pm

plait hanging beads made of caste silver with coin pendants, Aleppo (Syria) XIX century. They were worn 3 of them at each side of the head

Eva Baby November 20, 2012 at 2:57pm

Lovely, I like especially the coins. Thanks for the information, nice to know how they were worn. Syrian jewellery is rather rare here.
Patricia Deany November 20, 2012 at 3:43pm

I have seen very little of Syrian jewelry anywhere -- at least on the web. Seems to be rare all over.
Ethnic Embellishments November 20, 2012 at 6:16pm

These are interesting. We had a pair that came with a bulk lot of old Central Asian, Turkoman, and Iranian jewelry. I assumed that they were Central Asian, possibly Caucasian as the coins on the bottom were old imperial Russian kopecs.
Leonor Arnó November 20, 2012 at 6:43pm

In fact I bought them in a small town in the center of Syria, Dar-el Zour, but coming back home I found the information and a photograph of these beads in its original set in the book "The Arts and Crafts of Syria" from Johannes Kalter, Thames and Hudson, 1992. I've got 6 which are the same, so I guess they were from the same set, and 2 more smaller and older.
Harald November 21, 2012 at 10:26pm

Beautiful made plait jewelry. And a nice big set of 8! I will post my Omani plait jewelry in my Omani album.

It is so nice to compare things, although these do not resemble each other at all.

link:

https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/oman-jewelry-for-the-hair?contex...
Leonor Arnó November 22, 2012 at 8:13am

Thanks Harald! beautiful your plait jewelry of Oman