Ethnic Design Collection Reto Zehnder

The geometrical design has diamonds around a blank central portion. The Qur'an box has a central bead on top of the hirz and is strung to a rope. On the rope they are 12 silver beads, 2 silver cylinder and 2 decorated round medallion. The Samand hirz are commonly found in the Sharqiyah and or Nizwa area. The box has twenty  silver chains suspended from it and each of these terminates with silver losange. The box opens at one end to allow slips of paper inscribed with protective Koran verses to be slipped inside.The necklace comprises a thick, twisted wool cord clad for the most part with thick silver beads decorated with granulation and other work.