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IMG_3268-1 Ethiopian Harrar silver Muria & resin

This is a top quality Ethiopian Harrar silver Muria. with antique resin. The Muria is one of the town pieces look at the lovely pattern on the beads. This resin is yellow original but has gotten is dark red color through the many years of the heat of the sun and the skin. broken beads show that they remained yellow on the inside .
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  • My favorite necklace, Ethiopian (Harrar Muria with antique resin beads from Ethiopia.

  • Beautiful! 

  • Fantastic Ingrid and so well maintained. I just love the shine of the resin beads! They really look luxy! Great. Peter

  • Dear Peter and Eva, This is a necklace from my private collection and often worn.  It is special in its kind in silver, because of its refined decoration and made in a solid amount of cast silver with no residue,melted resin inside to prevent from denting.  I had some of the desi gns copied by my jeweler in Addis Ababa(who passed it on to an elderly jeweler and he did a fantastic job, but during those years he passed away, and couldn't be made again, because he had hidden the mold and the younger ones did make some simpler ones but the ones with the flowers disappeared. Gr. Ingrid.

  • Very beautiful, Ingrid. I like things with a history too.

  • Thank you for your appreciation Thelma. GR. Ingrid.

  • This necklace is absolutely gorgeous, Ingrid.

    I also love the story with the hidden mould showing that theft of designs has always and everywhere been an issue  - so your jeweller kept his moulds safe (were they ever rediscovered, I wonder?).

  • Hi Betty, haven.t seen you for some time.  And no the moulds have not been found.  So another young silversmith took over but managed to make only the facet and the ribbed ones. The new ones were made in a more solid silver and no resin inside. I have only a few left. GR. Ingrid.

  • That's a shame ... another bit of beauty lost in this world...

    I travelling most of September and when I came home heaps of work were waiting (plus a nasty flu), so I am also slowly getting back to a more "normal" state of things. Did you have a good time this late summer/autumn? I remember you were off to see your family...

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