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Could be, it is the same general area.
I only know traditional Albanian jewellery, worn with the costume. But like the other countries in the region they probably make contemporary jewellery using traditional shapes and motifs.

 

My Uzbek bird earrings, Uzbek bird motifs don't get more realistic than this, and there is usually some granulation:



They love their stones, like coral, carnelian, lapis. They also make gorgeous cloisonné enamel jewellery.

 

Aw, shucks; ya made me get to researching my hunch. Rajasthan. See below. The image at the top is first are of two pieces at the top are from my personal collection. The rest is from "Traditional Jewelry of India," by Oppi Untracht. Any hints for how to load a pic larger than 1MB? I had to crop like crazy.

 

And if you decide you'd like to pass it on, please let me know?

 

Love Rajasthani jewellery, but this necklace is different style. And Rajasthan could not have resisted putting bells on the panels.
I have never seen Indian jewellery with every single piece marked 925, that is more in the Tyrkish influenced regions. And they mark straight on the back, no separate plaque or cartouche.

 

I can see why.
It is a so-called bull-urn, made for people who want to take the bull by the 'urns.

 

I am impressed by the appalling pun and even more that it's not in your mother tongue.

 

Bad, isn't it.

 

Dutch. I swear there's something in the water in the Netherlands. Now how one explains the rest of us I haven't the foggiest.

 

It's all those brown cafes.

 

We don't have any here, and while I could get the same thing in CT without prosecution (just have to get a doctor to write a recommendation) I like my brain functional. So... what's my excuse?

 

Are you unfamiliar with sativa, Ruth? Or were you referring to something else? In which case, never mind.

 

I'm as familiar as I care to become. The smell of it burning or fresh is enough to send me running for the hills ... or a porcelain throne.

 

But no burnable green stuff? I hope?

 

Any hints for how to load a pic larger than 1MB?

the site rejects anything larger...........

 

Brown café is a traditional Dutch neighbourhood café, like a pub.
The bars where you can get the other stuff are called coffee shops.

Brown café, ideally it should have 'Persian' carpets on the tables, like in the Dutch Golden Age


Most are owned by an elderly couple, called aunt and uncle:

 

AWWWESSOME!!!

 

It also works in French... except not for the word bull