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Belt - Syria

Posted by Peter Hoesli on October 9, 2015 at 8:42pm
This is a very rare piece and I bought it out of Damascus/Syria. The buckle and the filigree decorations on each side are original and were most probably mounted before on a velvet belt, imported in old days all the way from Germany. This piece is old and therefore, I assume that not all the delicate filigree pieces have survived. The belt, which is attached to the leather pieces is interwoven silver, which is beautiful on its own but in my opinion does not really fit to the remaining belt arrangement.
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  • Thelma October 10, 2015 at 8:00pm

    This is lovely, Peter. Have you any idea of the date? Presumably Ottoman era?

  • Lynn Ardent October 11, 2015 at 12:43am

    WOW!!  Congratulations Peter on a most rare and spectacular old museum piece.  I love the tiny circles and coin and floral dangles on the old silver.  Thelma my own guess would be that this belt is from the mid 1800s.  It is marvelously preserved for its age.

  • Betty October 11, 2015 at 8:20pm

    How did this beauty escape my attention? A great find indeed and certainly quite old. Congratulations, Peter. 

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