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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 397295, member: 2844"]Of course you can. I wouldn't say 'very rare'. We have found several, so it isn't very rare. Maybe rare. It wasn't worn by Bedouin women, it was worn by Berber women. Bedouins are Arabs, from the Middle East. Berbers are native North Africans. There is no evidence it was worn by brides. Other Berber silver jewellery was worn either daily or on special occasions. The first owner may have worn it to every feast and festival she visited, we don't know.A lot of jewellery was given as part of a dowry, before or during a wedding, but that doesn't mean it was only worn on a wedding day. Jewellery was also bought and given years before and years after a wedding, whenever there was money to be invested in finery, just like anywhere else. It is cast silver, from a mold. Best not add that, what I read is simply part of the seal of Tripoli, it is of no significance. We don't have a definite date for the seal. So far we can only deduce it is probably first half of the 20th century. For all we know the seal could still be used, we simply don't have proof. It is also typical of more recent Berber silver. The tested silver content speaks for itself, and in this case fineness is not proof of a specific period. Good luck![/QUOTE]