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Brosche Swedish folk dress

Silver and glass. Early 20th Century
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  • Cool!!! Someone could have told me this was from Djerba and I would totally believe them!  How old is it?  Thanks for posting this!

  • surprising, it looks like a Fibulae from North Africa!

  • it's about 100 years old. Very small, only 6 cm long

  • I could be wrong about it's origin since it is unmarked and bought without information on previous owners, but a lot of jewellery with this type of ornamentation was made in Sweden.

  • yes.  it what i wrote about the brosche. i know a bit about the swedisch / sumi jewelry. there is a lot semilitude even in the cloths and their colors.specialy to kabyl

  • this fibel is with another technic but in almost the same style made with northa frica fibel

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