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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 295282, member: 2844&quot;]Some of my antique Yemeni coral necklaces. All coral is antique, mostly Mediterranean, through the coffee trade. Italy used coral to trade with Yemen for Arab coffee, which was shipped to Italy from the Yemeni port of Mocha.</p><p>The earrings in the first picture are old, from the Ottoman period in Yemen, but the hooks are new.</p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]96026[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Centuries old coral, possibly from the Red Sea. Bad picture, sorry.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]96027[/ATTACH]</p><p>Detail of the same necklace, some Med and Red Sea coral has that mottled effect:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]96030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mediterranean coral:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]96031[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one was sold a couple of years ago. This coral may have been Asian.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]96032[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The last one is antique Palestinian, a long necklace with a large silver niello amulet box. The Mediterranean coral is centuries old and re-used ca 1890:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]96028[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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