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Late-Ottoman 'köstek'. Black Sea coastal region (?), ca. 1900. Etnografisch Museum, Antwerpen.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on May 6, 2016 at 12:45am

Silver 'köstek ve sallaması' (pocket watch chains with ornamental pendent), for men. Late-Ottoman, from Anatolia, possibly from the Black Sea coastal region, ca. 1900. Total length: 118 cm. The piece came to the museum as part of a man's costume from Trabzon (gift of the Turkish Ministry of Culture, in 1983). (Etnografisch Museum, Antwerpen).

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