Featured King Tut wax

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  1. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Found this pendant wax while spring cleaning and trying to down size the number of mystery boxes which haven't been opened for years.

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    Hollyblue, Jun 5, 2019
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  2. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Is it like a wax seal?
     
    KSW, Jun 5, 2019
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  3. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Very beautiful, Holly. Do you have any idea how old it is?
    Looks like a wax model for a cast metal piece.:)
    On the finished pendant the bar attached to the faux beard would have been removed, it was just added so there would be a channel for the molten metal to get inside the beard part of the mold during the casting process.
     
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    Any Jewelry, Jun 5, 2019
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  4. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    The sprue on the beard says it's for metal casting.
     
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  5. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    I found the mold for the piece at college 30 years ago,no idea how old the original pendant was.
     
    Hollyblue, Jun 5, 2019
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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is beautiful. Could be as old as the 1920s, not long after the tomb was found.
     
    Any Jewelry, Jun 5, 2019
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