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Old 5th December 2022, 05:09 PM   #2
Peter Hudson
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Default Islamic Jewellery.

I note some coins in your group display a Tugra which marks them as Ottoman Turkish though they could be reproductions as this was normal.. The beads are likely to be agate or carnelian and often placed in a geometry suggesting a figure 5...and or a figure 3. Your main object illustrates this very well with 5 beads dangling off it and itself the main coin pendant hanging from a necklace with three beads as a joining group and one more bead on the left and another on the right... 3 plus 2 is 5. Th figure 5 is important since it portrays the Islamic concept of The Five Fingers of the Daughter of The Prophet. Sometimes portrayed as a complete hand and sometimes as a geometrical form.
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