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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 851793, member: 2844&quot;]Not Arabic, Barn, Tunisian, different continent and culture.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It was made for the Moorish population, which in the Maghreb means someone of mixed Berber and Arabic descent. A very specific culture.</p><p>People of early European descent (pre-1800) often wore Moorish jewellery as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mark is not a Tunisian hallmark, but most likely the maker&#039;s mark. Tunisian silversmiths were often Jewish btw.</p><p>I suspect the bangle is 19th century. If you search some more, there could be a hallmark, which is a tiny thin sliver of a thing, or a discharge mark, which is a tiny dot, or both. The legal fineness in the 19th century was ca 900, but could be slightly over. I have found Tunisian marks on spiral hinges, so look everywhere.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie97" alt=":watching:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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