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Old Ethiopian aluminum armbands or bracelets

Posted by Ethnic Embellishments on March 23, 2014 at 7:04pm
Lovely old and worn aluminum armbands or bracelets. They have a snake like look to them at the finials. Most of the designs on the bracelets have worn off. Some have colored plastic or resin inlay.
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Tags: Ethiopia, aluminum, bracelet
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  • Eva Baby March 23, 2014 at 9:38pm

    Love them, I have actually four of These. They are quite heavy, but I wear them sometimes.

  • Ethnic Embellishments March 23, 2014 at 10:07pm

    These are rather light weight as they are aluminum.

  • Eva Baby March 23, 2014 at 10:14pm

    really? strange, mine are also Aluminium but heavy. Well, I do not know whether there are different kinds of Aluminium. I also have huge Peul (Fulani) earrings which I wear as bracelets, they are also quite heavy (Aluminum too). But then I do not know.... Anyway, it is interesting.  I got them on Ebay about 1-2 years ago,  and at that time they were very sought after (resp. I had to fight to get them....)

  • Eva Baby March 25, 2014 at 5:15pm

    https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/old-ethiopian-eyebeads-whitehear...

    These are the ones I was talking about. They got quite expensive on Ebay, because several People tried to get them........but some years ago (1-2, do not remember exactly).

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