Featured An early Middle-Eastern Silver Coin Necklace.

This is a very nice Palestinian necklace. In fact, it is fastened on each side of a headgear. This is why you are having two hooks. It is a very valuable piece and you are very lucky to have found it! Congratulations!

 

Welcome @Peter Hoesli . I recognize your name from Ethnic Jewels.

 

Thank you very much Peter for your identification, it fits perfectly! I found a very similar, though later, piece on the British Museum's website. I have to admit that after having kept it for a month, it's not exactly my style, and, I might be looking to part with it so as to replace it in the collection with something more, victorian/european. You mentioned that the piece is valuable, but unfortunately, there's no trace of any auction or other sale results to put me even on the slightest track as to what I should be looking to get for it, could you be of some help? I promise pretty pictures of whatever seed-pearl and gold or first-world war trench art coin, it gets replaced by very soon in exchange!

 

@loruca , if you send Peter a private message you may not have to look for a buyer. You can convo him through your inbox on the top right hand side of this page.

 

Welcome to Antiquers, @Peter Hoesli !

 

Hi!
Talking of Libya, here is a large and extremely rare pair of Libyan temple ornaments.
The necklace (yes, fastened on the headdress) is from Palestine.
Kind regards.
Peter

 

Yes. Now everything shifted to the groups on Facebook! After 22 years in the Middle East (the last almost 5 years in Saudi Arabia were very fruitful for my collection), I am since beginning of March stationed in Abidjan at the Ivory Coast, which I have last visited 40(!) years ago... I am still buying Middle Eastern jewelry, mainly from Yemen (direct) but started to collect some gorgeous African beauties! Good to see you here!

 

"It is a very valuable piece"

In the future , Peter , maybe you should think twice before throwing out comments like that.....
as it only leads to comments like this in return....

"as to what I should be looking to get for it, could you be of some help?"

Here , we are not a site for valuation, even though from time to time a member will offer up a fair market price that they are comfortable with....because there are just too many variables in the buying and selling of items .

Telling someone they have a very valuable piece.....may indeed be true....but then you should be prepared to back that up with facts and figures.....so as not to leave another member starry eyed ...& in the lurch !

Do you sell fine jewelry as well as collect it?

 

The "rare" pieces in post #27 wouldn't be hard to replicate,maybe 20-30 minutes each.

 

Peter, you may notice that quite a few people come here to 'know what something is worth', as komokwa already said. In many cases that is impossible to say, since value differs from country to country, venue to venue. So most of us give those people search terms so they can find out for themselves.
But most of us are here because we enjoy learning and sharing knowledge.

I noticed something was different, but didn't log in very much so probably missed what was going on. Ah well, times change. I am not on facebook, so I find a refuge here.

You do realize we will be tagging you to pick your brain, don't you.
Love the Libyan temple ornaments! Libyan silver is usually very heavy, the weight of that lot must be incredible.

Good to see you too. We need more people on Antiquers' ethnic jewellery front, and any other help you can give from your Middle Eastern and African experience is very welcome too.

 

Most manmade things in this world can be replicated. It is not the possibility or speed of replication that counts, it is the feel of genuine ethnic jewellery and generations who have lived with it. Replicas don't have that, most replicas don't have any soul because they weren't made with soul.
Isn't that why most of us joined Antiquers, for the love of genuine 'stuff' rather than fakes?
And yes, the temple ornaments Peter posted are genuinely rare, not 'rare'. To be enjoyed by anyone who appreciates ethnic jewellery.

 

Hi!
All Palestinian jewelry is valuable as never many were made...
I am for the moment still collecting. I might part with some st a later stage but not for now as I really not have the time to do that...
We are opening the Mövenpick Hotel Abidjan in less than 5 months...
With kind regards.
Peter

 

So a lot to keep you busy. New legal issues and work circumstances to get used to, and sorting out private things in a new country. Good luck!