Featured Do I have a daddy? Vintage Silver necklace

This necklace is made of horizontal crescent links with one bird on the front and two on the back. Each crescent is marked 925 and the clasp is marked Sterling. I've cleaned it up a bit, but it was filthy when I took the photos. It looks vaguely Israeli or Egyptian, but the marks are wrong.

 

Do I have a Daddy?

No, but I seem to recall the necklace's mother's name was Lucille.

Love to have found that awesome piece.

Does look vaguely Israeli, or maybe Indian? Interesting that each crescent is marked 925.

I can't see the clasp very well, any hints there at all? Also seems like an interesting length. Kind of falls beneath the neck a bit?

Let's see if anyone else has ideas.

Very nice!

 

Turkish? Morocco? Chain doesn't appear to be original to the piece?

 

The clasp is just a plain jane spring ring. The oval whatsit has a 925 mark and some illegible initials. The clasp doesn't have a mark to its name. It's about 18 inches around

Greek?

 

My grandmother and my middle name, @Lucille.b

 

Are you gonna sell that little beauty, @evelyb30?? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I have a thing for birds...

 

It's birds and grape vines. One of these centuries, once I figure out what to call it.

 

It is lovely, evelyb, and I am sure it looks great when you wear it.
When every component is marked the usual suspects are in the eastern Mediterranean, former Turkish territory.
My guess is Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is not the Med geographically speaking, but close enough, and they are also known for marking each component. They make great wines, so grapes make sense there just like in Greece. Those love birds are seen a lot in Bulgarian folk art.

 

A lovely, sweet lady and what a wonderful smile, scouts.

 

That wouldn't surprise me too much; I've found other pieces from that part of the world here.

 

It's a very popular form in the "Stan" countries, e.g., Uzbekistan. How old do we think?

 

It has to be 50s or later from the hardware, and I'd say 60s is more likely as a start date. Beyond that...dunno.

 

Could the designs be Persian, produced elsewhere? The Iranians use their own silver marks.

 

Top photo,bottom of ring below bird's foot... looks like a very small rectangle but photo is very out of focus.

 

That's a 40x loupe for you. The rectangle is the 925 on the other side of the link. It's on all of them. The birdie is sitting on an urn.

 

It's a maybe 1.5 mm rectangle on the lower lip of the urn.

 

That's the sterling cartouche on the other side. A bit of the lower edge shows through on the fronts. Unless you meant the foot on the urn of course.

 

I have a lot of jewellery from the stan countries, but have never seen anything like this in the region. And I have never seen the 925 mark in a separate plaque or cartouche from any of the stans.
It is much too explicitly figurative for Uzbekistan, and probably also for Tajikistan and Afghanistan. There is a very slight possibility it is from Pakistan, but I wouldn't put my money on it.

 

I'm with the Eastern Med thing. I'm actually wondering if it's Albanian.