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Ethnic jewelry recycling 2

Posted by Alaa eddine SAGID on August 10, 2012 at 12:49am
This old tunisian silver and coral belt buckle was transformed into an ashtray or a coin-tray to better suit tourists taste who were flocking in mass numbers in Tunisia
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  • Patricia Deany August 10, 2012 at 3:35am

    Oh, how sad.

  • Ethnic Embellishments August 10, 2012 at 4:25am

    That is sad, but I must say that I prefer this to being melted down at scrap value!

  • Alaa eddine SAGID August 10, 2012 at 7:17pm

    Well it is indeed very sad, but as hillary said, i prefer recycling to melting and complete disappear!!

    And it is not much loss in case of common jewelry such as this belt buckle

  • Harald August 10, 2012 at 8:19pm

    This one is easy to turn in to a waist ornament again by carefully sawing away the bottom part. This is much harder to do to the with the maltreated anklets and bracelets from India and Tibet used as ashtrays.

  • Alaa eddine SAGID March 21, 2013 at 11:23pm

    for sale

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