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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4432019, member: 2844"]Short visit, to explain the following<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the elk/deer teeth are known as Grandl.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> They are often worn on Charivaris.</p><p>The Charivari is a charm chain for men, introduced just before 1800. Charivaris are short, like watch chains, and attached to a waistcoat or jacket, or even as an extension of a watch chain.</p><p>Before the separate Charivari chain, protective and good luck charms were attached to rosaries, which both men and women carried with them or even wore as necklaces.</p><p>The charms included charms we know from Italy or the Islamic world, like the fig fist (manu fica) and a delicate filigree flat hand (like a hamsa/hand of Fatima). Also saint's medallions and tiny vials with healing fluids.</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle talon charm is mostly worn on Charivaris from the Berchtesgaden region, southeast Bavaria, Germany. Berchtesgaden Charivaris have the greatest diversity of animal charms, often to do with masculinity.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Back to my den<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4432019, member: 2844"]Short visit, to explain the following;): Yes, the elk/deer teeth are known as Grandl.:) They are often worn on Charivaris. The Charivari is a charm chain for men, introduced just before 1800. Charivaris are short, like watch chains, and attached to a waistcoat or jacket, or even as an extension of a watch chain. Before the separate Charivari chain, protective and good luck charms were attached to rosaries, which both men and women carried with them or even wore as necklaces. The charms included charms we know from Italy or the Islamic world, like the fig fist (manu fica) and a delicate filigree flat hand (like a hamsa/hand of Fatima). Also saint's medallions and tiny vials with healing fluids. The eagle talon charm is mostly worn on Charivaris from the Berchtesgaden region, southeast Bavaria, Germany. Berchtesgaden Charivaris have the greatest diversity of animal charms, often to do with masculinity. (Back to my den:))[/QUOTE]
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