Featured Some antiques, anyone? Merovingian treasures.

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  1. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Sometimes we just want to see something antique, don't we? At times like that I tend to delve pretty deep into history, especially to look at jewellery and other precious goodies of course.
    Today it was Merovingian, named after a Frankish dynasty ca 400-700 AD.

    I came across this Dutch Merovingian beauty (as you do), and wanted to share it with you:
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    The capital of the Merovingian kingdom was in present-day Belgium, but it covered a considerable chunk of Continental Europe.
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    More Dutch Merovingian goodies:
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    Don't know where this one was found, but I wouldn't mind if I stumbled upon it while doing a spot of gardening:
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    And a bit of fun, even though it is a gravestone, front and back, found in Germany. The smiling little guy on the left is combing his hair. It looks like he is waving at us.:)
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  2. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    What would the stones be on the 1st pedant Aj, garnets ?
     
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  3. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes, Bohemian garnet cabochons. They also used garnets and garnet glass for much of the cloisonné and champlevé.
     
  4. Miscstuff

    Miscstuff Sometimesgetsitright

    Makes you wonder how they shaped the bits of garnet so exactly and then found a glue that works for a thousand years.:D:D:D
     
  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Shaping with files, probably. Glue could be natural resin with some other goo mixed in.

    Exact shapes in the 5th century sword hilt of king Childeric:
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  6. Ghopper1924

    Ghopper1924 Well-Known Member

    So beautiful! Don't know a thing about it, but I wouldn't mind finding that jewelry casket/box myself!! Thanks for sharing.
     
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  7. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    I'm trying to understand the second picture. A mass of different pieces or an assemblage in one pin?
     
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  8. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    A mass of different pieces, a hoard found in Rhenen, not far from Arnhem, the Netherlands.
     
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  9. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Ah now I understand, these are all from around the Netherlands. I love stuff like this. Thank you.
     
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  10. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Many pieces in the Rhenen hoard are fibulae, cloak pins.

    Like these, easier to distinguish from the pile once you know the shape:

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  11. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

  12. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    WOAHHH! I'm a huge fan of these garnet tapestries :)
    These old times technics were stunning!:woot:
     
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  13. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    The two pieces are astonishing in the simplicity of shape and then the red nose cabochons and silver. Gives me goosebumps.
     
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  14. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    No files or glue used,probably shaped with wood sticks and abrasive slurry.The stones are "burnish" set much like a bezel or channel set stone. There is quite a bit of information from the British museum with their research of the Staffordshire hoard.
     
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  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I just found some info on a Dutch site. They already had diamond tipped tools, which the Romans had also used. Apparently the Roman diamond tipped tools were traded as far as China.
     
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  16. Dawnno

    Dawnno Well-Known Member

    Ditto, when I saw Merovingian I couldn't click fast enough.

    Under appreciated and understood, thx.
     
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  17. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Love the gravestones especially the one on the left.
    Dyslexic moment, I meant the one on the right!
     
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  18. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    When you search for the period on international sites, you find England, but no mention of the Continent.:banghead::banghead::banghead:
     
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  19. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    The tools had crushed diamonds less than the size of fine sand embedded into them,many people today still make their own diamond embedded tools with a copper or steel base for the tool. link to diamond tool history http://trishjax.tripod.com/id23.htm
     
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  20. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Perfect for fine cutting, grinding and 'sanding', I think.
     
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