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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 238375, member: 2844&quot;]It is certainly a traditional style, as are the ones you showed. By the way, those are wrist bracelets, rigid ankle bracelets are very sturdy and usually don&#039;t open.</p><p>The top one is with the Makaras I mentioned, that is the usual animal head bracelet in India. Wearing a Makara has a great protective meaning, a bit like having a guardian angel. The floral elephant head is unusual, looks like a modern take on the Makara head bracelet. Both are kundan meenakari style. Kundan style is stones in individual mounts, but with the mounts tightly against each other. Meenakari is an originally Persian enamel style with mainly floral motifs.</p><p>These bracelet are found in different variations throughout India, with related styles in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They are a living tradition, still made for weddings and other special occasions. Old jewellery is often scrapped and used to make new jewellery in a similar style.</p><p>The last picture is of a classic Multan style bracelet, with Multan enamel on silver, but set with stones, which is unusual. The hinge on these bracelets is out of centre.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a rigid ankle bracelet:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]72569[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My problem is that mine is none of the above.</p><p>It does not have the usual Makara heads.</p><p>The stones are not set in the kundan style, but bracelets with an occasional stone here and there are not uncommon in &#039;Subcontinental&#039; jewellery.</p><p>The enamel is more like the duller Multan enamel, not the shiny, floral meenakari. But there is little of it, whereas Multan enamel usually covers an entire bracelet. And I have never seen Multan with gold, but this could be a marriage. The wear on the enamel indicates age, I have a feeling it is mid-century, at least.</p><p>And the hinge is central, unlike Multan and most other Pakistani style bracelets, but like many Indian style bracelets.</p><p><br /></p><p>While writing this it suddenly struck me that Multan was ruled by Sikh for a while. The lion is an important symbol in Sikhism, and to avoid caste distinction Sikhs even adopted the name Singh, lion, as a generic surname (formerly used only by the warrior caste). Maybe that is something I should look at. Right now the only Sikh bracelet I know is the kara, the steel bangle worn by men.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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