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  SARAH CORBETT February 27, 2011 at 9:53pm

  Hey Linda, did I mention before that I would love to come and play dressing up in yout house!!!

  This is sublime x
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  Linda Pastorino February 27, 2011 at 10:02pm

  Any time!  I have cloths too besides jewels!

   
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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey February 28, 2011 at 1:58am

  Linda your piece is gorgeous - I have a necklaace from the same era.  Love it!
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  Linda Pastorino February 28, 2011 at 5:00am

  It is fun to wear at the right events!
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  Joost Daalder March 1, 2011 at 12:47pm

  Yes, this description seems right to me, in every detail.
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  Linda Pastorino March 1, 2011 at 4:44pm

  These were sold to me (had other ones also  that went to collections) as breast plates. But I told the sellers who were Muslims, which woman would wear this? only prostitutes. They thought inside the house they would in front of husbands.  I can not think at all this would be a breast plate, doesn't sound plausible. So I believe it is basicaly like the headdresses I have sold that are same only in silver from Uzbekistan but used mostly by Turkoman tribes and called the Serajna.
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  Joost Daalder March 9, 2011 at 5:15am

  WONDERFUL!
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  Joost Daalder March 12, 2011 at 7:40am

  That does remain one of the most stunning pieces you have posted here, I feel.
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  Linda Pastorino March 12, 2011 at 5:05pm

   Hi I think there are other ones that are also very good but these things are quite personal. I'm in the midst of deciding to give it up or not. I so enjoy wearing it!
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  Joost Daalder March 13, 2011 at 1:04am

  We have a Turkoman one which is certainly very old and good, and which we obtained fairly recently (2 or 3 years ago) from someone who had good things but did not know what this was (also thinking of breasts, of course). But the shape and its purpose is well documented in more than one reliable source (Rudolph and others), and it is a headdress and nothing else. However, this particular piece interests me not only because it is Uzbek, and as such is very different from the Turkoman version (in its details rather than overall shape), but also because it is such a GOOD Uzbek object. In my personal assessment (and as you say, these things are personal) Uzbeki pieces divide rather sharply between wonderful fairy-tale objects like this which are nevertheless restrained, and others which slide into excess, sentimentality, etc, in which case I intensely dislike them. I probably should not praise this so much as it will only encourage you to keep it! For which you could not possibly be blamed. But I do like it, every time I see it.