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  Patricia Deany July 21, 2011 at 2:59am

  Do not think it is Yemeni-- at least the Yemeni I am used to. Could maybe be Persian I love it whatever it is.
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  Patricia Deany July 21, 2011 at 3:00am

  Or maybe Egyptian?
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  Toya July 21, 2011 at 3:15am

  I bought it from a man who said he collected silver  work made by Jewish silversmiths before 1949. He said it was from Yemen but I agree-it does not look like anything I have seen before from Yemen. It seems to be very old, has lots of wear, and it was almost black before I cleaned it. I love the mystery of it.
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  Patricia Deany July 21, 2011 at 3:33am

  I love the simplicity of it and , of course,I am wild about the central pendant-- you are lucky to possess such a wonderful necklace!
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  Toya July 21, 2011 at 3:45am

  Thank you, Patricia. Yes, simple is a good way to describe it. I just bought this during my recent visit to Santa Fe. I also found one of those Meknes pendants you love. (also known as Patricia Pendants:) So now I have one of those as well. Can't wait to make a necklace with it.
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  Patricia Deany July 21, 2011 at 4:00am

  Ha, ha, I am trying to possess completely all of those pendants -- just bought some from Ayis and from one from girladorned, so I soon shall control the largest portion of these pendants in the world ( and what good will that do, I ask.)
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  Toya July 21, 2011 at 4:36am

  I understand completely. I feel the same way about khamsas.
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  Ethnic Embellishments July 21, 2011 at 6:09am

  I would guess the Levant, based on the style of chain, could be Egypt though!
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  Alaa eddine SAGID July 22, 2011 at 10:02pm

  I would say like Patricia, Persia and maybe Iraq, but then shiites are more willing to implicate ali, hassan or husain in the names engraved, while here we only have the prophet's name.

  The levant is another option, but the bales of the pendant are so persian or even further east towards north india

   

  See how the crescent shaped pendants look like "kashkool" or begging bowl from the

  indo-persian islamic world
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  Patricia Deany July 22, 2011 at 10:21pm

  Here is a pic of a glorious kashkul. I will later add a pic of my more humble kashkul. This is tinned copper and from Kashmir, but it illustrates the basic shape and the calligraphy which is always present on this objects. I think the rarest are made from a type of shell in Madagascar coco-de-mer-- these are usually of a different shape than the boat shaped one illustrated. These are dervish bowls -- different from the whirling dervish but part of the property of a Sufi dervish along with his axe and his special hat which also sometimes contained holy calligraphy. I have been on a mission to find one of those calligraphic hats but it has eluded me so far. I saw such a Dervish many years ago on a really magically beautiful day in Isphahan, Iran. Even then the Sufi Dervish were few and far between and certainly did not populate the cities of Iran.  But there were some sacred Dervish places in Iran, notably Mahan in southern Iran near Kerman.  

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