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necklace

Posted by manish khavadiya on April 25, 2011 at 12:24pm

these are original gypsy women necklaces.some of them have cotton strings in them and some of them have metal(white metal) strings in them.these are worn by the gypsy women of andhra pradesh and karnataka (south India).these poeple use lot of coins and metal tassels in there work.these are regularly worn by the women.in early days these necklace were made with original silver coins by the britisg government or by the nizams(old ruler of south India) coins.but now they use normal coins but the jewellery is still one of its kind.

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