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Moroccan Tourist Necklace?

Posted by Lynn Ardent on July 27, 2015 at 6:05am

This colorful necklace is made up of an interesting combination of newish and oldish components. It has beautiful old-looking yellow resin amber beads, and old-looking cast resin green beads. It has newish looking pink glass beads, and yellow/gold plastic disc beads plus one green one. It has old glass buttons, and striped glass beads. In the front of the necklace there are two real coins with glass jewels, and then aluminum coins and discs. Finally some old red glass cylinder beads, and the enameled egg bead with faux coins. There is no silver in this necklace, everything is metal, nickel, or aluminum. Some of the components are dirty and some are clean. Is this a tourist necklace?Dimensions:175 grams32 cm long, hanging

Comments

Lynn Ardent July 31, 2015 at 7:33pm

Anyone able to confirm whether this is a tourist necklace?
Preethi August 1, 2015 at 5:49am

Lynn, I would say that this was probably made for the tourist market, but is strung in the style of necklaces from the area. Necklaces strung for local use, sometimes by the women who wear them, are not so 'neat' or symmetrical. There's a varied mix of elements I think.

Alaa or Hillary or Sarah or Patti would be able to give you a better explanation.
SARAH CORBETT October 11, 2015 at 8:37pm

This was made for a tourist but it was done before 1990's the ingredients are of a good quality and the Chinese and Indian imported glass beads took over from Venetian glass for tourist pieces mid 90's

S x
Lynn Ardent October 11, 2015 at 9:55pm

Thank you so much for the ID, Sarah and Preethi. Do you know what the green resin beads next to the coin pendants are? They appear hand shaped similar to the resin amber on this necklace. I really love them and would like to find more!
Lynn Ardent November 7, 2015 at 7:04pm

I recently got a new book and I was excited to see all of the components appearing on Berber women. Here is a woman from Bou Izakarn.
Lynn Ardent November 7, 2015 at 7:05pm

A woman from the oasis of Tarhjicht. She is wearing the coral glass beads, the buttons, the green plastic/resin beads, and the venetian beads.
Lynn Ardent November 7, 2015 at 7:07pm

Necklaces from the same region
Tesori Orientali November 7, 2015 at 7:10pm

The small coins are silver ..Lynn…and maybe the taggemout oval pendant

Kiss kiss
SARAH CORBETT November 8, 2015 at 12:12am

The stringing suggests a newer stringing of some mixed age components . S X
Lynn Ardent November 8, 2015 at 1:13am

Thank you Sarah! I enjoyed seeing the components used on Berber ladies. I really wish I could get a whole strand of the green beads.