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Posted by Becky Rogers on June 21, 2011 at 2:04am

Any ideas where this could have originated?

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SARAH CORBETT June 22, 2011 at 8:58pm

There is a great mix of elements here. and these could have been gathered most anywhere in the last 60 years and threaded into a treasure necklace.

Cord looks to be black fibres? Is it waxed thread

S x
Becky Rogers June 22, 2011 at 11:55pm

I will have a look at the thread- probably not today - just collected our puppy from the vet after his operation and he needs watching. I am fond of this necklace. I picked it up from an auction along with a bracelet from Oman and a necklace of what looks like Telsum beads, with blue beads on old string. All sold as North African. It is often really hard to know what is real and what is fake or simply mislabeled. There is an item on ebay right now labelled as an authentic late 19th C bedouin face mask. Hard to tell if it is or isn't - or at least hard for me to tell. B
SARAH CORBETT June 23, 2011 at 12:00am

Hi Becky, post a link to the bedouin piece if you wish, someone is likely to know something to help x
SARAH CORBETT June 23, 2011 at 12:04am

PS hope your puppy has a swift recovery x
Alaa eddine SAGID June 23, 2011 at 9:40am

the bedouin face mask you are talking about is 100 genuine and authentic

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Authentic-late-19th-C-early-20th-C-Bedouin-Fa...

all the items this lady is selling are wonderful and genuine

saudi pieces are seldom seen on the market and there was virtually no touristic market to encourage forging and faking