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Ethiopian Earrings - North Ethiopia - 3

a pair of very old Ethiopian Earrings from the North, silver with copper and/or brass or Gold. The base plate is silver and was probably guilded on top. One seems to have silver knobs, the other a copper mix, so perhaps it was not a matching pair (I do not know).Diameter 2,6 cm, heavy, 0,6 cm thick
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