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Ancient bakelite? bracelet from Cameroon01.08.1191
- Bakelite and other formaldehyde resin
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Can be delivered polished
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
This type of bracelet could not be clearly identified. They have been collected in northern Cameroon 1983/84. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin ( Bakelite). No reference, literature or Web sources of similar items could be found. Comments are welcomed.
Tuareg stone bracelet "eewuki"01.08.1281
- Stone
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- Jewelry for collection or exquisite wearing.
This upper-arm triangular stone bracelet, eewuki, from Niger is made of a soft stone, aluler, found in the Air mountains (Niger). Worn on the upper arm, the Tuareg believe in its powers as a protective amulet and to provide force to the arm. Stone, in general, is believed to possess protective powers and to bring luck. Once broken and reduced to powder they are used to heal wounds.
Necklace made with 13 pairs of alloy fertility symbols (phallic amulets)02.03.488
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
Size of single element: 14 mm Weight: 44 gr
Comes ready to be worn, mounted with a clasp lock.Origine: Wollo Province.
Necklace with 34 old worn fertility symbols02.03.501
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
Size of individual elements: 15 mm Weight: 43 gr
Nicely strung necklace with small old & worn fertility symbols and red and white glass beads, locked with a button. The necklace is in its original state.
Ethiopian necklace with 7 round Telsum beads02.03.506
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Elements for individual jewelry design
Diameter Telsum beads: 10 - 15 mm Weight: 39 gr
Nice necklace with 7 round Telsums beads in different diameters, strung with small metallic beads and a clasp to close it.
Telsums(charms) are protective charms as part of the brides dowry, given by the groom to the bride during the engagement. The triangles protect from the evil eye, while the half moon protect from the harmful influence of the declining moon.
Small Ethiopian necklace with square pendant02.03.530
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
A double string with tube like beads and a square pendant. Fitted with a clasp.
Ethiopian orthodox circled cross 02.06.453
- Composite
- Tested
- Silver 90 - 95%
- Glass
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
Old Coptic crosses often incorporate a circle; sometimes large, sometimes small. The circle of the Ankh originally represented the Sun god. For the Coptic Church, the circle represents the eternal and everlasting love of God, as shown through Christ's Crucifixion.
Old, used coptic cross with ear cleaner. Origine Gojam / Gonder ?.02.06.458
- Tested
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Silver/nickel or nickel/copper alloy
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
A latin form cross with on its base an ear cleaner
Rare Ethiopian silver cross pendant02.06.478
- Tested
- Silver 90 - 95%
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Excellent overall condition
A latin cross with one transversal arm looking downwards, probaly from Jimma area.
Choker from Yemen or Oman03.01.1338
- Silver
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Jewelry for collection or exquisite wearing.
The exact origin of this necklace could not be defind and no litt. reference could be found.
Yemeni pendentif03.05.1321
- Silver
- Excellent overall condition
- Elements for individual jewelry design
Silver plate with engravings and two buckles on top and on bottom. To be used for your individual jewellery design
Two pendants for individual jewellery design04.01.1990
- Aloy with poor silver content
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Elements for individual jewelry design
- Excellent overall condition
The two amulet boxes are ideal to design your own necklace.
Tibetan ivory ? necklace04.02.1273
- Ivory
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Jewelry for collection or exquisite wearing.
- Original condition
Nice small necklace with nice old beads, probably ivory.
Open-work bracelet - Afghanistan04.03.1920
- Silver/nickel or nickel/copper alloy
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Fair condition (some missing, broken or repaired parts, see pictures)
- Original condition
Afghan bracelet open-work, closing with a long pin. The bracelet is in its original condition.
Indian silver bracelet04.04.1902
- Silver
- Excellent overall condition
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
Nice and easy to wear Indian bracelet. Tribal origin not known.
05.01.1510
- Glass
- Antiques (object shows signs of long use)
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- Elements for individual jewelry design
A rare, very large and heavy chevron bead. This bead is in perfect condition. Beads of this size are rare.
Necklace with Ghaneen brass and bauxite beads05.04.926
- Bauxite
- Brass / bronze
- Glass
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Modern local design
Necklace designed by unknown Ghaneen jeweler. The necklace is made out of 31 bauxite beads, two Ashanti brass beads and glass beads.
Small necklace of white and red carnelian beads05.04.954
- Carnelian
- Elements for individual jewelry design
- Original condition to be restrung if desired
This strang is composed of white and red, oblong and round small beads of various sizes.
West African glass beads05.09.1096
- Glass
- Elements for individual jewelry design
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- Original condition to be restrung if desired
Two strands of white Ghaneen glass beads05.11.921
- Glass
- Recycled material
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Elements for individual jewelry design
- Recycled eco friendly product
Strand Length: 4 X 300 mm Weight: 285 gr
This Ghaneen necklace is made out of 2 strings of recycled transparent glass beads. They are made using an ancestral technique of grinding up recycled glass bottles into a powder and pouring into clay casting for melting. The necklace can be worn as such or the beads used for creating new jewelry.
Large necklace of small blue glass beads05.14.929
- Glass
- Recycled material
- High aesthetic value
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Modern local design
Large pectoral with small blue glass beads. Designed by an unknown Ghaneen jeweler. Highly decorative jewellery.
Necklace with Lapis and silver beads05.17.1540
- Lapis Lazuli
- Silver
- Jewelry ready and easy to wear
- Excellent overall condition
Nice necklace with 20 silver openwork beads , 19 Lapis Lazuli beads and 2 conical silver end pieces.
A swing of dark green ( Jade?) stones 05.17.1550
- Jade
- Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
- Elements for individual jewelry design
A string of 31 dark green beads of various sizes
Calebash pot09.01.1674
- Gourds, calabashes
- Various fibres
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional household item
- New never used
Pretty squash container surmounted by a basketry collar. Either it never had a cover or it is missing.
Small spice box from Swat valley, Pakistan09.02.1238
- Wood
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
- High aesthetic value
A turned and decorated lidded spice box witrh red and orange colours, and natural signs of age. These boxes were used for spices sugar, etc. Similar boxes are used in the Northern Frontier district of Pakistan, Pakistani-Afghan border areas and Punjab.
Adire alabere - indigo cloth10.02.2063
- Cotton
- Excellent overall condition
- Fabrics for fashion design
- High aesthetic value
- New never used
This is a stiched resist and dyed in probably synthetic indigo cloth. The base is an industrial cotton fabric.
Zinc stencil (pochoir) for "aire eleko" cloth10.09.2070
- Metal
- Didactic material for weaving & dying
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Functional tool
- Fair condition (some missing, broken or repaired parts, see pictures)
Stencil cut out of a zinc panel and then chiselled with a star and flower motif. The surface is then coated with cassava starch, using the stencil. Starch is only applied to one side of the cloth. The starch resist technique is used with a cold indigo dye-bath. Repeated immersion is required and great care is taken, not to crack the resist.
Two independent brass element from West Africa13.02.1406
- Brass / bronze
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Elements for individual jewelry design
- Good overall conditions (small imperfections or signs of use)
Origin and use uncertain, but interesting elements to be integrated into your original jewellery design.
Ancient brass pipe head Cameroon21.01.1617
- Brass / bronze
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Excellent overall condition
- Original condition
Beautiful ancient pipe head from the Caeroon highlands, collected in situ around 1975. In perfect condition, but signs of long use, tar residus and nice patina.
Clay pipe head Cameroon21.01.1624
- Clay; Pottery
- Excellent overall condition
- Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
- Original condition
The pipe head is in perfect condition; its origin is not clearly defined, but most probably Cameroon. The furnace has a lovely patina and three engravings.