Featured Keychain? Who made me?

Hi all. I picked this thing up and have since been driven batty trying to figure out A) how to use it B) who made it . You'd think the hand clasps the section above the key ring,and it does,but doesnt seem to hold with keys on it! Is this thing missing a part ? I also tried to find the flying A mark,no luck. Normally I wouldnt ask yall about stuff like this,but Im becoming obsessed. Any input is always appreciated.

 

Don't the keys just slide onto the ring like any other keychain?

https://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-Key-to-a-Key-Ring

 

What size is it,looks like it may be a bracelet....... https://www.google.com/search?clien...VnxoMKHemqCNMQ4lYITigU&biw=1536&bih=872&dpr=1

 

I would have thought a bracelet as well. And a nice one.

 

Schappierelli was known for using hands in her designs. I didn't think there would be anything that contemporary with her name on it - but it seems possible:



I didnt follow the pinterest links, but there could be something out there Google Schiaparelli Keychain hand

Otherwise, it's a figa - marteax

 

Not her mark, though

 

Does the hand work as a hanger?

 

It is also used a lot in antique jewellery, from just about all ages, maybe that is where Schiaparelli got her idea from. Hands are for connection, commitment, engagement, marriage, etc etc.
It is not a figa, different position of the fingers.

 

No, I know it's not a true figa - just a sideways reference that might help elsewhere. Used earlier, they had a little more suggestive meaning (hence the link )

Schiaperelli also used lobsters - both in her own surrealistic/outré way.






And with Dali

 

They are still making them. The Italian explanation is that the devil doesn't like anything to do with love or sex, and it scares him off. Brazilians love it too, adopted from the Portuguese, maybe they have the same explanation.
There is an old Portuguese canon in Indonesia which also has a manu figa. The locals see it as a fertility symbol and visit it when they want to have children.

 

She also made beautiful semi-normal clothes... The Tears Dress, covered in graphic rips vvvvv

 

I had to fix that marteax link - it didn't go to the article in mano figas. This one does, too. Sorry for any ??

 

The top one is enough to give you nightmares!
Love the red hands and as for the lobsters........

 

Right? It looks like she's getting ready to snap her own neck! Lol

 

NOT A CLUE but, interesting thread!
Naturally the girls have slipped far far away but i guess bracelet as well

 

Reminds me of the Whiting and Davis snake bracelets, but don't think it's their mark. Johnny, does it look like the key chain ring was added later after something broke off? Would be easy enough to slip that on I suppose if something else broke.

Also, does the hand have any kind of closure mechanism from underneath?

Unusual!

 

It may have come as a handbag accessory...

Aigner comes to mind, but this is not their style

 

I feel like I have seen this before.... but where?
I would have grabbed it too.

 

may just be a key chain..