WOW...Thanks!
Statement pieces, any way you look at them...very nice score, Pete. Welcome here, BTW...
Whew! What an enormous effort, visible in your great pics, Laura...obviously a labor of love. Unlike Nana, tho'...I'm glad I don't live close...
I am intimately familiar with the syndrome!
Oops...sorry, muddled thinking! I plucked this from Google Images...there are quite a few others, too:...
If Berber, then goat or camel wool probably. Thanks, AJ...I'm grateful!
Holy Smoke (now that I realize what it means)! There are hundreds of them very similar to mine...Thanks!
Thank you, AJ! Both of your links have the word Gablonz in their titles. What does it mean, in context?
There are ~85 total, 14 of them are the 'floral' separators usually delimiting groups of 10. The complete string weighs ~158 grams; it is ~24"...
I have no clue when or where this was acquired. It's ~1 3/4" wide by ~1 3/8" high; made from 2 pieces of embossed copper or brass sheetmetal....
A chevron for each 6-month deployment, perhaps?
Separate names with a comma.