Featured Name for this style of Indian wood & silver bangle?

And India got beautiful nephrite jade from China. A favourite of the Mughal emperors.
The trade between India and China is thousands of years old.

 

You have been a lively and valuable bunch the last couple of days! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I've had email issues so didn't see the many recent replies until today. So, it seems I have some Chinese bangles, of silver and bamboo, circa 1920-1930, sold by an enterprising Indian shop owner whose wares were marketed to visitors/foreigners. Yes? What great sleuthing work and historical insights. I must look up memsahib now!

 

Yikes! I did it again! Wrote a long, grateful reply and lost it!

Thanks to all for your input. It seems I would be safe in saying that I have two bangles of silver and bamboo, made in China circa 1920-1930 but sold by a Bombay merchant of "curios" or gifts who marketed to non-natives, or visitors?

I have looked up the word memsahib and found it curious that it may apply to an upper class OR married white woman and is a term of respect used by non-whites. Funny that class or marital status could be the determinants in choosing that address.

I appreciate all your contributions!

 

That's colonial society for you. Fortunately that is all in the past.

 

Very interesting thread. Lots to learn here!

 

Memsahib was also used by British white colonials to refer to Her Indoors or She who Must Be Obeyed. It's sometimes still used here in a jocular fashion. The memsahib.

 

Sorry, I think it could be Burmese silver rather than chinese based on pattern. I am not able to read the mark.