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  Chantal December 30, 2012 at 12:28am

  Jose, where are the coins from? Could you post the detail of the small side -enamelled?- ornaments?
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  Jose M. Pery December 30, 2012 at 4:34pm

  Thank you, Chantal.They are Moroccan coins. As to the ornaments they may have been enamelled but there are no traces left. I am attaching below some close up pictures.

  
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  Chantal December 30, 2012 at 5:35pm

  Thanks for the close ups Jose. Shame I cant help with the area where they would have been made and  worn. Maybe somebody else can.
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  SARAH CORBETT December 30, 2012 at 8:54pm

  Hi Jose.
  I believe that this is a chimera of a jewel. The double bailed coin at the base is from igmahern or thereabouts near to Ouarzazatte. . The chains are a typical high atlas style. The glass adorned discs are tarroudant. The mismatched hooks Marrakech and Ait atta (draa) ........so maybe a dealers creation, maybe gathered elements used by a lady somewhere in the mountains to make her headdress.
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  Chantal December 30, 2012 at 8:58pm

  I thought it looked different from....the"usual"ones (whatever that is!)
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  Jose M. Pery December 30, 2012 at 9:08pm

  Thank you very much, Sarah. You maybe right. I saw a picture of a lady (see below) wearing a "chain arrangement" and, though it is very different arrangement, I thought that this could be, as you say, a lady's own homemade arrangement.  

   

  
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  SARAH CORBETT December 30, 2012 at 9:12pm

  The construction of the chains is very different in the pic you have posted. Also I don't recognize the triangular pendant as Moroccan...maybe Tunisian.. .?
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  SARAH CORBETT December 30, 2012 at 9:13pm

  Or Algerian
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  Jose M. Pery December 30, 2012 at 9:20pm

  Algerian as Chantal told me. Yes, it is very different.
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  Chantal December 30, 2012 at 9:38pm

  The photo of the woman: Chaouia, Aures.1937. its the cover of the Benfoughal book on les bijoutiers de l'Aures.